It's not too dissimilar to life as a Principal level engineer pre-AI. You technically oversee the work of many engineers on their own systems, but you couldn't possibly review all the code yourself. You appreciate that human code review reduces, but does not eliminate, the number and severity of bugs shipped to production. You don't have the low-level details in your head, just the high-level ones. You design how all these engineers interact with each other, without stepping on any toes.
Time will tell whether we were right to move from a system where we trusted humans to understand the low-level system, to one where we trust fancy calculators. But so far, it's working.
Time will tell whether we were right to move from a system where we trusted humans to understand the low-level system, to one where we trust fancy calculators. But so far, it's working.