It is no longer news how much our lives as developers, engineers, tinkerers, artisans, and coders have changed since the advent of AI. For me, AI has been a great leveler in my journey as an engineer. It became the pair programmer I always wished I had. Had I enjoyed the luxury of an LLM back in 2021, I genuinely believe one of my contract engagements would have lasted much longer. Since then, we've watched the industry evolve rapidly from LLMs to MCP servers, then autonomous agents, loop eng...