Being a senior dev in 2026 means explaining to AI why we don't do that
josh_wills · x · 2026-09-06
A widely resonant one-liner on AI-era engineering: the senior developer's job in 2026 is being the person who remembers why the team doesn't do things a certain way — and explaining it to an AI that just did it anyway.
It captures the emerging division of labor: AI generates code fast, humans carry institutional memory and architectural judgment.
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