When AI Turns Over-Engineering into a Feature It happened during a routine code review. Nestled among the business logic and API endpoints, I found a new "Skill" file —a sophisticated piece of automation designed to synchronize configuration variables across several disparate locations in the software project. On the surface, it was impressive. It utilized modern AI hooks and automation scripts to ensure that when a developer changed a setting in one place, it propagated flawlessly to the others. It was sleek, it was "smart," and it was a questionable use of engineering effort. The problem wasn’t that the code was poorly written. The problem was that the code shouldn't have existed at all . Had the project been designed following the fundamental DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle, there would be no "multiple places" to synchronize. The configuration would live in a single source of truth.…