AI Is Becoming Infrastructure

I was talking to a tech lead a couple of months ago, over drinks. Someone who's been shipping production code for over twenty years. I asked him, almost as an afterthought, when was the last time he wrote a line of code without AI assistance. He paused. Actually paused. "Over a year," he said. "Maybe longer." The number wasn't the surprising part. It was the realization in his voice. He hadn't noticed the transition. It just ... happened. I've been thinking about that conversation ever since. No