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AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery

False Mastery Claude wrote me Go tests that passed. They were beautiful, and they were worthless.

Claude is a gift: it can write Go code with tests, comments, SQL queries, and the shape of a real feature. When entire teams relax into false mastery, codebases turn into Rorschach blots: familiar shapes, no underlying model. This is hard work we've been doing for years: reading code carefully, building models in our heads, debugging when things don't make sense.

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