Photo by Patrick Konior on Unsplash A maturity model for shipping fast without breaking customer trust. I made an earlier argument that deploying code and releasing a feature are not the same event, and that treating them as one causes unnecessary risk. That argument still holds. But the environment it was written for has changed. AI-assisted development has made writing and shipping code dramatically cheaper. A change that used to take a sprint now takes an afternoon.

Someone asks you a question. You don’t know the answer off the top of your head, so you paste it into Claude, copy the response, and send it back. That’s not a human interaction. That’s a very slow API call with extra steps. I keep seeing this pattern, at work, on forums, in social communities, and it makes me wonder if we’ve completely missed the point. Not of AI. Of ourselves.