SMRTR ProgrammingMay 17, 2026Daily.dev

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer

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A staff engineer reflects on how their AI usage has evolved over the past year. Agents have gone from occasional tools to constant collaborators — now handling full PRs, bug investigations, testing, and local setup tasks. The key insight: the real skill is knowing how much to delegate, since both under-using and over-using agents leads to problems.

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