Baldur Bjarnason

“Rely On AI And Get Left Behind – Codemanship's Blog”

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/is-comprehension-debt-in-your-risk-register/

> These are effects we’re seeing today. Most dev teams are shipping less reliable software, and shipping it later thanks to “AI”. Good work, everyone!

Rely On AI And Get Left Behind

LLM-based code generation comes with multiple potential gotchas for a business. More code hitting process bottlenecks like testing, review and integration makes most teams slower. More problems bei…

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Feb 21 at 10:31amWeb
Show threadJules 🍺Feb 21
@baldur this is my surprised face
Show threadDawn AhukannaFeb 21
@baldur my current saying to address the impact of this behavior on embodied, human experiences:, “AI won’t hear or see for you. Only your own brain does that!”
Show threadBaldur BjarnasonFeb 21
@dahukanna Right!
Show threadDreyFeb 21
@baldur - Absolutely 100%
Show threadhrastFeb 21
@baldur The future is Dow
Show threadDCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦Feb 21
@baldur
Comprehension debt is really something. My coworker just used Claude to 1) build a Kubernetes cluster and 2) analyse a twenty-year-old project (Visual FoxPro) and plan a rewrite, despite not knowing a single thing about Kubernetes or Visual FoxPro. And management ate it all up. I feel like I’m in The Emperor’s New Clothes all the time.
Show threadAlexFeb 21
@baldur They have been pushing that "Don't Get Left Behind" line a lot lately. I'm hearing it in Higher ED even.
Show threadAlex DixonFeb 21

@baldur great article! I was brewing one of my own:

Don’t get left behind, say the people who wouldn’t put in the hours to learn. They are pioneers in a new field with skills beyond those of us who have spent 10’s or 100’s of thousands of hours learning, coding, debugging and shipping software.

Don’t get left behind say the people who slop out 10k lines of code per day, and don’t understand this is not to be celebrated.

Accept my PR and give me credit for the code I didn’t write or understand

Show threadcraignicolFeb 21
@baldur @Binder the people who are enthusiastic comparing vibe coding to offshoring are so close to getting it...