Lately I’ve been noticing a strange pattern while working with AI coding tools. We’re shipping faster than ever. Things that used to take hours now take minutes. Boilerplate is almost gone. You can scaffold APIs, workers, database layers, and integrations ridiculously quickly now. From a productivity perspective, it honestly feels amazing. But debugging production systems lately feels… harder. Not because engineers suddenly became worse. And not because the generated code is obviously bad. Actually, that’s the scary part. Most AI-generated code looks completely reasonable. It’s clean. Structured. Usually follows good patterns. Sometimes it’s better formatted than human-written code. And most of the time, it works. Until production traffic starts doing weird things. Then suddenly everyone is digging through logs trying to understand behavior nobody fully modeled mentally. We’re skipping the part where understanding happens I think this is the real shift AI introduced.…