<![CDATA[Stories by ZIRU on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@jh.baek.sd?source=rss-51530e618e54------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*LMzlex2KGOH8ZolKdb6Gvw.jpeg Stories by ZIRU on Medium https://medium.com/@jh.baek.sd?source=rss-51530e618e54------2 Medium Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:46:57 GMT <![CDATA[I Barely Read My AI’s Code. So Why Am I Writing More Than Ever? ✍️]]>

Code used to fill about 70% of my day. Now code review takes about 10%.

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The secret isn’t more free time or more willpower, it’s that the gap between “what if?” and “it runs” got really, really short

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One AI rewrite ran 150 times faster on one test and lost 99% of its messages on another. After 24 years in software, here is where my…

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The fix was not a bigger plan or a cheaper model. It was closing four leaks I could not see

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The Morning My Job Felt Small

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AI can match your syntax and your speed. It cannot match the judgment you earned by shipping and failing. So I stopped letting mine rot in…

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Cloud AI is rented land. The price moves, the limits move, the model changes with no warning. I put mine on a Mac mini that sits on my…

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The problem isn’t your model or your prompt, it’s that you handed over one huge goal and assumed the AI would fill in every step you…

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The problem isn’t that AI writes badly. It’s that AI can’t tell which sentence matters, and that part is still your job.

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