
The AI Is a Very Fast Junior Engineer
The "very fast junior engineer" frame is not a knock on the technology. It is the most accurate mental model I have found for working with AI consistently and well.
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Notes on agentic systems, how they show up in real products, and what changes when AI stops waiting for a prompt.

The "very fast junior engineer" frame is not a knock on the technology. It is the most accurate mental model I have found for working with AI consistently and well.

The agent works from what is in front of it. It cannot verify whether the file path you gave it still exists. It cannot infer that your one example represents fifty similar cases. It cannot tell the difference between a broken prompt and a dropped network connection.

Rules without enforcement are just suggestions.

Context is not passive. It competes for attention.

When it comes to AI, we be optimisically cautious. We must prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

When it comes to AI, we be optimisically cautious. We must prepare for the worst but hope for the best.
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