AI doesn’t threaten intelligence.
It exposes how little judgement most systems have.
A few months back, I sat in a review where a junior engineer presented an architecture proposal. Clean diagrams, well-structured document, confident annotations. The first questions were answered fluently. Then we pushed into the edge cases: what happens when this service changes, how does it behave under unexpected load, why this particular approach over the alternatives?
“I’d need to check.”
Three times in the same conversation. The work looked senior-grade. The reasoning wasn’t there. When I asked what had informed specific choices, the honest answer eventually came: “Claude suggested it and it seemed right.”
I didn’t blame them. But I kept thinking about what had actually happened in that room.