AI Doesn't Lighten the Burden of Mastery. It Makes It Easy to Stop Valuing It.
AI As False Mastery
Claude wrote me Go tests that passed. They were beautiful, and they were worthless. They all collapsed to
true == true.
That's the trap. AI gives us the illusion of mastery without the work. The shape of the code looks right, making it easy to skim the details.
I'm not being careless choosing to use AI. None of us are. Claude is a gift: it can write Go
code with tests, comments, SQL queries, and the shape of a real feature. It can produce a Svelte
frontend with components and...
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