⛔ Stop Saying "I'll have AI do it"

March 08, 2026 09:58 • Category: Thoughts

Stop it, you need to take ownership of your work. Stop acting like you're stepping back and letting the machine do the work for you. As the engineer, you are responsible for the code that your name is attached to. Stop saying "I'll have Cursor do that", "I'll have Claude add that". Say "I'll get that added" and the leverage the tool that helps you do it. You wouldn't say "I'm adding this change with VS Code". Who cares what IDE you're using and what features it has. You made the change with a tool. If you use Cursor, Claude, Codex, Roo Code, whatever, it doesn't matter because code is code.