Half the TL mourns skills-ification of hard-won engineering, half deletes all unit tests
vboykis · x · 2026-09-29
vboykis captures a split in the AI engineering timeline: half are seasoned engineers watching years of sweat equity get packaged into agent "skills", while the other half write things like "we deleted all our unit tests and generate them per CI run" — a sharp take on the clash between accumulated engineering craft and aggressive AI-native practices.
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