I use AI to move fast now — a lot of the actual typing happens that way, and I'm upfront about it with clients rather than quiet about it. Ask it for a component, a layout, a first pass at some copy, and it'll hand you something in seconds that used to take an hour. That part's genuinely great, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

But speed isn't the same as correctness, and AI is confident whether it's right or not. It'll wrap a card in scaffolding it doesn't need. It'll guess at a pattern that almost fits instead of asking what your site actually needs. It'll happily generate something that looks finished and would quietly cause a problem eight months from now. None of that shows up on day one — it shows up during the first redesign, when someone has to actually understand what's there.

So the discipline hasn't changed, even though the tool has. Before anything ships, I read it. I understand what it's doing and why. If I can't explain a line, I rewrite it until I can — that's true whether I typed it or AI did. The site still has to hold up two years from now, when something needs to change and whoever's touching it — me, or eventually someone else — needs the structure to actually make sense.

What I won't do is pretend the speed isn't there, or pretend I'm typing every character myself when I'm not. What I will do is stay the person who's responsible for every line that goes out, regardless of who — or what — typed it first.