"Coding is becoming gardening": guardrails are stakes, review is pruning
sebpaquet · x · 2026-10-31
A widely resonated take on AI-era engineering: you don't sculpt every leaf anymore — you set stakes and trellises (types, tests, lint, CI, context files) to guide where the code grows, and review becomes pruning. The craft didn't die; it moved from sculpting to gardening.
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