Comment by repelsteeltje

I think the heart of the matter is this section in the blog:

> Yes, I blame AI for this.

> I am currently writing much more, and more complicated software than ever, yet I feel I am not growing as an engineer at all. [...] (emphasis added by me)

AI is a force multiplier for accidental complexity in the Brooks sense. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet)