There once was a junior who spent a week on one unit test. Thirty-seven commits. Each one broken. His senior approved the thirty-seventh because the sprint ended Friday. The test went to production. It passed, but only because it didn't actually test anything. Six months later, a real bug shipped. Same function. The checkout flow broke for twelve hours. The team spent two days in war rooms. A feature launch got pushed. The business felt it. That wasn't AI. That was a human approving code he didn't understand to make a deadline. I know that story intimately ... not because I was the junior, but because I've been the senior who clicked approve. The project delivery pressure is constant when you're shepherding code to production. The back-and-forth on pull requests feels like a tax you can't afford when the sprint is ending and the demo is Monday. So you start making calculations. Is this worth the discussion? Will anyone notice if I just push this through? I made that calculation once.…