Last quarter I tracked my time across three consulting engagements. I spent 11 hours a week reviewing AI-generated code and under 8 writing my own. The ratio surprised me, and it changed how I think about developer productivity.
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- A Node.js service kept getting OOMKilled, but only on Tuesdays. The batch job was a red herring. The real problem was a lazy cache eviction strategy that nobody thought to question.
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- A client's deployment kept failing in staging but not locally. The root cause wasn't code — it was sixty-seven environment variables spread across five files with no documentation and no single source of truth.
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- We practiced deployments religiously but never tested a rollback. When a release broke checkout and we hit the big red button, we found out half the system couldn't actually go backward.
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- A client's platform had 23 AI agents built by a team of 8. Nobody could tell me what half of them did. Agent sprawl is the new microservices sprawl, and the cleanup looks depressingly similar.
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