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Our git stats show 6 contributors. One of them is an AI. Here's what the commit history looks like, not the marketing version.

The concepts I wish I'd known before week one. 8 tools, 200K tokens, hooks as the only deterministic layer, and why config eventually takes 30-50% of your time.

I've sent the same Slack message more than 20 times. Here's that message, with the context that makes it useful.

506 commits. 407 files. 8.6% of all repo activity. Here's the git archaeology of how AI configuration evolved over 9 months on a real production codebase, and why the pattern is probably universal.

Everyone talks about shipping 10x faster with AI. Nobody talks about accumulating debt 10x faster. 7 months of production data from a real EdTech platform.

A non-developer modified 80 files in production in 10 days with Cursor AI. Exact timeline, AI config setup, and what it means for engineering teams in 2026.

Jeremy Twei coined it. Addy Osmani popularized it. Margaret-Anne Storey extended it to teams. Here's what I built to fight all three.

AI changed engineering leadership. After 12 years as VP Engineering scaling 30+ people, I chose to go back to code. Here's why solo builders with AI now match small teams.