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The industry is obsessed with building smarter agents. The real gap is the control plane — the infrastructure that makes agents trustworthy, observable, and accountable at scale. Right now, that infrastructure barely exists.
AI is creating leaner teams and faster code, but it's quietly eliminating the conditions that build engineering judgment. The cognitive debt discourse is missing the point — experience debt is the real problem, and it won't show up on any velocity dashboard.
AI changes the development stack but not the mission. Product engineers who blur the lines between frontend, backend, and infrastructure are essential for building resilient AI systems.