October 2026
A short hot take on AI, after the first year of using it at work.
Yes, it’s great. There are few arguments left for fighting it, or for taking a strong position against it because of the craft.
Doing my job now is close to putting on a mech suit and playing at 5x speed. It’s crazy. I love it. I’m excited.
But once you’re in the express wagon of AI coding assistance, it is easy to get lost, lose direction, or start producing content that leads nowhere, that might look like progress, but is the contrary.
I like to think that, at this point, I understand what not to do, and what is beneficial at the organisation level. Common standards. Shared procedures, like capturing institutional knowledge across skills, ensuring the friction remains to some extent: thinking, judging, validating ideas, not just producing.
But I said I would keep this short. What hasn’t changed, and still plays a role, is communication and how we collaborate.
A lack of effective communication still hits hard. Not knowing how to work across teams, or taking the wrong attitude, is something AI cannot change.
The bottleneck remains on us. We are better and faster, but the human aspect still plays a role, and its price is high.
Verdict
The suit makes you faster. It does not tell you where to go, and it will not talk to the other team for you.