A lot of what's been written on this topic falls into one of two camps: the "AI made me 30% more productive" piece, usually written by someone six months into using the tools and often by a consultant who doesn't have a job to actually do, and the architectural piece about how AI changes the SDLC, which tends to be written from a vendor perspective and skips over the human reality. I'm interested in something else: what it's actually like to be a senior engineer in an org that's gone deep on this, three years in, and whether the shape of the role still makes sense. We build before we think The biggest change in how I work is the collapse of the gap between idea and demoable thing. Three years ago, if I had a meaningful proposal, the process was familiar: write a proposal, get feedback, iterate, build a small PoC to demonstrate value, get a team assigned to take it to MVP, ship something fully featured and integrated with the rest of the platform six to twelve months later.…