IIIMPACT Design

Software engineers are slowly losing the ability to navigate their own codebases.

When developers write code natively, they build a mental model of the architecture. They know where things are, how systems interact, and why certain fragile decisions were made years ago.

When developers transition to simply prompting an AI to generate code, that mental model degrades.

They are outsourcing the implementation, which means they are outsourcing their understanding of the system.The problem surfaces when something breaks. A developer who hasn't written the code no longer knows how to fix it natively.

They are forced to continue prompting their way out of the problem, guessing at solutions because they no longer possess the deep, structural knowledge of how everything is wired together.

We are trading deep expertise for temporary speed.

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