AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (xpost)

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what’s happening now. Crossposted from AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less. A few days back I wrote a piece called “AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy.” I have notes on a whole pile of AI-related topics that I’d like to cover in depth: AI mandates, communication norms, code review, AI art, and more. Unfortunately, I got too many interesting responses to my last piece, and now I have to address those before I can move on to other topics. 😉 There were two types of interesting responses: the first on the technical merits, the second on ethical grounds. I will respond to each of these separately. Let’s take the technical side first, because it’s easier. Somehow, a subset of readers came away believing I was telling everyone to ditch code review and push their shittiest code straight into…