𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘆 𝗢𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘆 𝗢𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀

An engineer spent three days on a fix. It should have taken four hours. The senior who built the code was gone. The notes were thin.

I offered to rewrite it. The engineer said no. They spent days reading history. They traced the logic. They built a mental model.

They fixed more than a bug. They understood the system.

Now AI fixes things in minutes. It removes the pain of learning. Speed kills discipline.

When execution is hard, you think. You plan the architecture. You predict problems. You write notes because memory fails.

Now you build a system in one afternoon. It works. The demo is clean. But you do not know why it works. You hope it does not break.

Friction is information. Sit with the problem. Do not automate it away.

Building things to last requires a slow start. It requires understanding before building.

You have two choices.

• Move fast and be hollow.
• Move with discipline.

You no longer hide your choice.

Source: https://dev.to/jandrewsnc/the-mercy-of-hard-things-26oe