The AI Seduction That Breaks Engineering Instincts

AI tools dramatically accelerate implementation, but they expose a deeper limit: human comprehension. Code now grows faster than teams can absorb it, creating “comprehension debt.” The article introduces three mental models — AI YAGNI, AI Seduction, and Judgment as the Bottleneck — arguing that speed without discipline leads to fragile systems. The constraint didn’t disappear. It moved to our minds.