Instincts vs Skills
Your instincts about code are right. Your instincts about AI configuration are wrong. The gap will cost you.
A senior developer reviews AI-generated code. Their instinct says “this looks fine.” Twenty years of pattern recognition, firing automatically. The code ships.
Three weeks later, a subtle bug surfaces. The kind a human would never write, but an LLM generates confidently: structurally correct, semantically wrong.
The instinct was built for human-written code. AI-generated code follows different failure patterns. It is fluent without being correct. It passes the eye test while failing the logic test.
We learned this the hard way. Our most experienced engineers had the highest false-confidence rate on AI outputs.
New medium, new instincts. The old ones are liabilities now.