Still Burning Run Out to Meet It
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Apr 8, 2026 
Charity Majors, a software engineer and observability advocate known for SRE and engineering ops leadership. She discusses the sudden leap of AI coding, why traditional craft-focused developers may struggle, how everyone’s knowledge was reset, the advantages juniors now have, and practical shifts in code review, mentorship, and tooling to meet fast-moving change.
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Everybody's Ignorance Has Been Reset
- The industry reset everyone to "ignorance 100" where previous seniority advantages lose their edge.
- Charity Majors: experience, beautiful code, and readable style no longer guarantee leverage against automated generation.
Beautiful Code Loses Power As The Main Proxy
- Engineers who prized readable, elegant code are struggling because human-readable beauty is less leverage when AI reads and generates code.
- Charity Majors: maintainability proxy shifts away from human-understandable style toward outcomes and instrumentation.
Use Review To Regain Situational Awareness
- Reimagine code review as situational awareness rather than ritualistic PR blocking; focus on what changed and why.
- Charity Majors' Wait What? tool surfaces tests, structural changes, and passing/failing tests at a glance.