"Slow down because your hurt my feelings".
Archive: https://archive.today/VEbgF
From the post:
>A weekend experiment with Codex turned a monolithic, untyped JavaScript form engine into six clean TypeScript modules. The technical result was objectively better: clear boundaries, full types, passing tests, and new features that were suddenly trivial to add. But the PR landed like a bomb. The original author saw three years of work replaced in twenty minutes by a tool, and the team lead flagged the real failure—zero communication before a change that rewrote someone else's domain.
The core problem wasn't the code quality. AI's speed collapsed the normal cost of refactoring from weeks to hours, erasing the implicit signal that serious effort signals respect. When changing someone else's work becomes nearly free, the psychological barrier between "should I" and "I did" disappears, and the human contract that holds teams together starts to fray.
The resolution required killing the giant PR, splitting the work into small, reviewed chunks, and spending a week on what AI did in minutes. The code ended up in the same place, but the team survived.
"Slow down because your hurt my feelings".
Archive: https://archive.today/VEbgF
From the post:
>>A weekend experiment with Codex turned a monolithic, untyped JavaScript form engine into six clean TypeScript modules. The technical result was objectively better: clear boundaries, full types, passing tests, and new features that were suddenly trivial to add. But the PR landed like a bomb. The original author saw three years of work replaced in twenty minutes by a tool, and the team lead flagged the real failure—zero communication before a change that rewrote someone else's domain.
The core problem wasn't the code quality. AI's speed collapsed the normal cost of refactoring from weeks to hours, erasing the implicit signal that serious effort signals respect. When changing someone else's work becomes nearly free, the psychological barrier between "should I" and "I did" disappears, and the human contract that holds teams together starts to fray.
The resolution required killing the giant PR, splitting the work into small, reviewed chunks, and spending a week on what AI did in minutes. The code ended up in the same place, but the team survived.
