AI coding tools are changing output faster than they are changing judgment

I say this not as a spectator to the AI tooling wave, but as an engineer who has spent the last four-plus years building and scaling production systems across payments, multi-tenant platforms and reliability-sensitive environments, and who has had to make architectural decisions where failure would not have been theoretical. In one recent role, I led a live payment infrastructure migration from Stripe to PayPal while keeping transaction processing uninterrupted, an experience that sharpened my v