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Perfection is not over-engineering
The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.
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Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence
The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.