Can you explain what shipped under your name?

A single developer can now ship 2,500 pull requests to production in a month. Every one of them goes out under a person's name. This week five writers ask what that name still stands for, and what happens when nobody can explain the code behind it.

• THE STAKES · Dan Luu
  There's no point at which turning your brain off will work (opens in a new tab) · the engineer who stops understanding the code is the first one the model can replace
• DISSENT · Steve Yegge
  The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1 (opens in a new tab) · ownership didn't disappear, it moved from the line to the system, and the human is still the slow part
• PRACTICE · Addy Osmani
  Own the Outer Loop (opens in a new tab) · let agents run the inner loop; a named engineer keeps the verdict and answers for it
• THE MATH · Baltes, Cheong and Treude
  An Endless Stream of AI Slop (opens in a new tab) · 1,154 developer posts show who pays when code is cheap to write: the reviewer and whoever maintains it next
• WIDER VIEW · Dan Shapiro
  The five levels from spicy autocomplete to the software factory (opens in a new tab) · a ladder of how teams hand work to agents, and the rung where nobody asks the question anymore