LibreWeddingPlanner Maintainer Regains Control Without AI

This is a sharp critique of AI-assisted development’s real failure mode: delegation without comprehension. The answer is not necessarily banning AI everywhere, but preventing it from replacing architectural judgment and hands-on understanding.

• –Multi-agent workflows created context-switching overhead that erased apparent productivity gains.
• –AI-written tests and implementations can undermine TDD when the same system defines and solves the problem.
• –Convincing code and polished PR descriptions can hide shallow understanding and make review more complacent.
• –Developers should retain ownership of design, verification, and incident response, even when using AI for bounded tasks.