AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
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The economics of code production flipped in 2025 — generating code became free and instant, making lines of code disposable rather than precious. Drawing on Chad Fowler's 'Phoenix Architectures', the argument is that code should be treated like immutable infrastructure: replace it, don't mutate it. The real bottleneck is now encoding system knowledge, behavioral specs, and production observability — not writing code.
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