'AI Wrote It' Is Just the New 'Steve Wrote It'

The bug report made no sense. A guard clause that should have caught the edge case wasn't there. I traced the logic back through three refactorings, four renames, and finally hit git blame . The commit was from 2019. The author wasn't someone I recognized. Let's call him Steve. He left the company in 2021. The engineer beside me looked at the screen, sighed, and said the phrase I'd heard a dozen times before: "Oh, Steve wrote it." Said with a shrug, like it was weather. Unavoidable. Someone else