AI is allowing a lot of "non SWEs" to speedrun the failed project lifecycle.

The exuberance of rapid early-stage development is mirrored by the despair of late-stage realizations that you've painted yourself into a corner, you don't understand enough about the code or the problem domain to move forward at all, and your AI coding assistant can't help either because the program is too large for it to reason about fully.

AI lets you make all the classic engineering project mistakes faster.