When AI Turns Over-Engineering into a Feature

When AI Turns Over-Engineering into a Feature It happened during a routine code review. Nestled among the business logic and API endpoints, I found a new "Skill" file —a sophisticated piece of automation designed to synchronize configuration variables across several disparate locations in the software project. On the surface, it was impressive. It utilized modern AI hooks and automation scripts to ensure that when a developer changed a setting in one place, it propagated flawlessly to the others