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AI Coding Tools in 2026: What They Get Right, Where They Fail, and Why You Still Need a Senior Engineer
After 40 years of building software — from Turbo Pascal on an 8-bit machine to Python pipelines for a space telescope — here's my honest take on what AI coding tools actually change.
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Why AI Tools Don't Replace Systems Experience — They Amplify It
After 38 years of building mission-critical software, here is what I have learned about where AI development tools help, where they fall short, and why experience is the multiplier.