Igor Fil

I asked my AI agent to prep me for a customer meeting. In the meeting, I could barely remember which company I was talking to. I did not forget the details — I never knew them in the first place. An AI summary is rented knowledge. Writing it yourself is owning it. Renting is fine — until you rent something load-bearing.

Every programmer will tell you their code is better than average. Me included. That’s why every programmer now says AI code is bad. But “good code” was never aesthetics — it was ergonomics for the bottleneck: human cognition. The bottleneck moved.

Recruiters flood my inbox 3-4 times a week with Forward Deployed Engineer offers. Postings are up 700%. Billions are being spent on a job that didn’t exist two years ago. I’ve seen this stampede before — microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka — and I keep saying no.