AI Intelligence vs. Worker Intelligence

A slightly embarrassing thing happened yesterday. One of our backend engineers pinged me late at night and pointed out a bug that needed a frontend fix. The code was probably written around two weeks ago. Back then, to speed things up, I let an AI agent handle most of the implementation. Human intelligence only did a quick review, a few basic tests, and then we shipped it. Turns out, I had quietly accumulated a mountain of technical debt. The strange part was this: when I opened the repositor...