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> But it’s not the biblical story. At Babel, the loss of common language stops construction whereas in AI-assisted engineering, construction can continue after shared understanding has already collapsed. The lack of an immediate failure is what makes it curious and a bit disorienting. The tower does not fall, and so we do not notice what was lost. It just keeps rising.

I don't think we have hit a long enough timescale to say that we _can_ actually build on top of the AI-assisted engineering work. Tech debt tends to reveal itself later on in the process.

Personally I've totally witnessed AI-assisted work that is clearly heading towards a brick wall quite quickly. I think "mixed feelings" is my optimistic view.

People really discount how well _well engineered abstractions_ are required for AI tooling to not generate absolute garbage. And if people are relying on AI tooling for the abstractions... I think you're really tempting fate in the mid-term.