When code is cheap, judgement becomes the job
Swizec Teller
Opinion — commentary, not a factual news event.
Plasmidsaurus describes how an engineering team using Cursor and AI coding now ships frequently with strict accountability, merging most pull requests and delegating background tasks to AI agents instead of writing and watching code line by line.
Why it matters
As AI makes code production cheap, the scarce work shifts to choosing priorities, reviewing product behavior, maintaining architecture, and owning outcomes in production. Senior engineers create leverage by turning repeated review feedback into deterministic guidance while keeping human judgment for business context.