The Boring Engineering You Did Is Now AI Infrastructure

Part 2 of 5 in The New Engineering Contract - what it means to lead engineers when AI is doing more of the coding. Stripe never skipped the boring stuff. They ship 1,300 AI PRs a week. Amazon skipped it. Their storefront went down for six hours. Kent Beck wrote the answer in Extreme Programming Explained in 1999 . We read it. Then chose velocity anyway. A friend of mine leads engineering at a funded startup. Sharp person. Good instincts. We talk regularly about what's actually happening in engin