Don’t let AI break your collective thinking: a practical guide for engineering teams

Over the past few years, my workflow as an engineer has changed a lot. I went from the occasional autocomplete to using AI for ideation, debugging, refactoring, and system design when appropriate. At the individual level, the gains were obvious. But something more subtle started happening at the team level. The unexpected downside AI didn’t just make us faster. It changed how we think together. I’ve been in teams that adopted strong practices around knowledge sharing and AI u...