AI Principles — The Parts You Still Own

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agents write most of our code now. That’s not a complaint — it’s the best leverage I’ve seen in my career. But it’s created a quiet failure mode: people start treating the agent as the engineer, and themselves as the person who pressed go. The output got faster; the responsibility didn’t move anywhere.

These are the four principles I keep coming back to with the team. None of them are about prompting. They’re about the parts of the job that stayed yours when the typing got delegated.

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AI Principles — The Parts You Still Own