When AI-First Becomes a Loyalty Test

🫧 Open on Bubbles A team is in planning. Someone asks for another engineer, another month, or a narrower scope. A few years ago, the useful questions would have been about the problem, the risk, and the cheapest responsible way to reduce it. Now a different question can become the ritual: did you try it with AI first? That question can be healthy. Some engineers still underuse tools that would remove boring work, surface options, or force a sharper explanation of the problem. I do not think engineering lead