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Time matters, but expertise does not come from time alone. In software engineering, AI makes the missing part impossible to ignore: growth comes from new constraints, real feedback, rising stakes, and ownership of outcomes.
Tanya Reilly's 'Being Glue' names the invisible human work that holds a team together but never shows up on your own record. The deeper pattern is the same one behind every high-maintenance system: a person standing in for a fix that was never made. The goal is not to be better glue, it is to build systems that heal themselves so humans are needed as glue as rarely as possible.