Hits way close to home
But as the “founding engineer” from this story, I made a lot of product level calls to avoid the layering of “urgent easy features” that would cost x100 in support down the road.
I also heavily protected my team against crunch and was the only one affected on the rare occasions it was required.
Learning how to say no constructively is a core engineering skill in startups.




This would likely have been a multi-year effort if done manually by experts on hobby time, and impossible if the person using AI didn’t know what they were doing.
The LLM would have gotten stuck for sure without proper guidance.