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The fight over whether AI is good or bad is the wrong fight. AI is a friction-removal engine, and there are two kinds of friction: the kind that is building you, and the kind that is only taxing you. Telling them apart, in the moment, is the whole skill.
AI does not destroy your work in front of you. It moves the cost somewhere you cannot see: to later, to the invisible, to the version of you that stops getting built. The strongest case against leaning on it, made in full.
AI took the typing, and the cost of software engineering did not go away. It moved from the hands to the head and got heavier. The new scarce resource is your attention, and the new discipline is managing it.
There's a moment when time stops making sense. When the normal relationship between effort and output breaks down completely.
The cognitive price of transformation. When individuals build enterprise systems at massive personal cost. Capability vs sustainability.