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Use Your Brain: Engineering Standards in the Age of LLMs

Paolo Galeone argues that LLMs are pushing engineers into a "custodian" mindset—shipping AI-generated code they don't understand—and calls for strong CI/CD, code ownership, and engineering discipline to use AI as an amplifier rather than a crutch.

Aug 05, 2026 · tech · Paolo Galeone, P. Galeone's blog

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Topics

  • ai-assisted-coding
  • engineering-craft
  • software-engineering
  • developer-productivity
  • agentic-workflows

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  • Agentic workflows

    Systems where AI agents execute multi-step tasks autonomously, raising interconnected questions about harness architecture, state management, reliability engineering, human oversight, and the organizational context those agents operate within.

  • AI-assisted coding

    Using LLMs as coding collaborators spans a spectrum from inline suggestion to fully autonomous multi-agent pipelines, with active debate about reliability, skill atrophy, security exposure, and what human oversight must remain.

  • Developer productivity

    Developer productivity spans individual workflow habits, organizational systems, and AI tooling — and the sources collectively argue that output speed is the least reliable measure of it.

  • Engineering craft

    Engineering craft is the accumulated discipline of writing, organizing, and maintaining software well — spanning code design, tooling fluency, communication, and the judgment to know when technical excellence actually changes outcomes.

  • Software engineering

    Software engineering spans craft, process, and judgment — how code is structured, tested, reviewed, deployed, and maintained — and the sources collected here collectively interrogate each layer as AI tooling reshapes who does what and why.

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