SMRTR ProgrammingMar 15, 2026Hacker News

The Shadow Dev Problem: Why your engineering team is quietly fracturing

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Development teams are quietly splitting into two groups: those using AI tools like Claude Code effectively and those stuck in manual workflows. This creates a 'Shadow Dev' problem where AI-powered developers operate at fundamentally different output levels, creating capability gaps, inconsistent code quality, and knowledge silos that traditional blocking or free-for-all approaches can't solve.

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