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AI Engineering - Coggle Diagram
AI Engineering
risks
costs
cursor browser experiment
cost millions of dollars
some AI native team spending $6-10k per dev per month
Long term quality
trading speed for maintainability
losing deep understanding of the systems
skills atrophy
fewer juniors coming through
Engineering fundamentals
Key job of engineering
solve problems
manage the complexity arising from those solutions
these won't change
they are more important than ever
engineering still shapes the solution
Spec driven development
key to controlling cost
PRDs / specs
control risk
move in small, verifiable steps
verification
test automation
static analysis
LLM review
Design engineering
rapid prototyping
enable design to cut code and handover working designs to engineering