Author name: Phoenix

Artificial Intelligence, code-review, developer-productivity, engineering-management, software-engineering

I Approved a PR in Two Minutes. Three Days Later We Rolled It Back.

Phoenix / April 23, 2026

The Opacity Tax on AI-generated code is invisible until it isn’t.Continue reading on Medium »

Artificial Intelligence, content-creation, writing

The AI Slop Backlash Hit Critical Mass This Week

Phoenix / April 18, 2026

I published a blog post last month that took me four hours to write. A reader commented: “This reads like ChatGPT.” It wasn’t. Every…Continue reading on Medium »

Artificial Intelligence, developer-tools, quality-software

I Mass-Deployed an AI Coding Agent. Then the Model Updated and Nobody Told Me.

Phoenix / April 18, 2026

Last month, I woke up to a Slack message from our most senior engineer: “Did something change? The agent is rewriting entire files again.”Continue reading on Medium »

AI Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, claude-code, developer-tools, software-engineering

I Mass-Deployed an AI Coding Agent. Then the Model Updated and Nobody Told Me.

Phoenix / April 13, 2026

The Silent Regression Tax is real, and it’s costing your team more than you think.Continue reading on Medium »