AI made me a better engineering leader
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AI didn't make this engineering leader faster at coding — it made her sharper at the parts that actually matter: design reviews, architecture decisions, and surfacing risky assumptions early. A METR study found developers using AI took 19% longer but felt 20% faster, highlighting how unreliable our productivity intuition is. The real win is making reasoning visible sooner, so teams can challenge decisions before they harden into systems.
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