The Contribution Theatre Trap | Narayan
Amazon recently tightened scrutiny on AI-generated code pushes. Engineers were shipping functions they hadn’t thought through, and production was breaking in ways that review couldn’t catch.
The headlines wrote themselves: “AI writes bad code.” “Vibe coding fails.”
But the code wasn’t the problem. The code was fine.
Nobody had done the thinking that’s supposed to happen before the code.
My Bold.