The House Gun: Why AI Velocity is Building Uninhabitable Code

When I started developing over 25 years ago, we hammered every nail by hand. The job was defined by coding, manual testing, and the friction of deployment. You didn't just write a function, you lived through its lifecycle. You understood how the system held together because you felt the weight of every dependency and manually verified the logic. Then came the power tools The era of modern IDEs, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines. These are force multipliers. They don't change the physics of engineering, they make the roof go up faster.