As the kids say, AI makes everyone a 10x engineer. Who would you you want to 10x?

But it's measuring quantity, not quality.

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

What we really need is the -10X engineer ;)

Alas, his job would entirely consist of debloating the slop everyone else is pumping out "at inference speed".

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed