Executive Atrophy: Engineers Are Shipping PRs They Can No Longer Explain
JFPuget · x · 2026-09-24
Blogger din0s published an article titled "Executive Atrophy" arguing that AI-assisted coding is eroding genuine understanding of the work: PRs are increasingly opened by authors who can't fully explain what's in them or why things are the way they are.
The author calls this trend of colleagues becoming "meat proxies" and lays out why organizational engineering judgment is quietly degrading as people ship code they no longer truly comprehend.
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