When Speed Masks Lost Craft // AIDRAN

The Revise Show HN post was the kind of artifact the AI-tools conversation rarely gets: a developer who stayed deeply involved in architecture across ten months, used agentic tools throughout, and shipped a genuinely complex product — a custom word processor engine, a CRDT stack, a bespoke rendering layer — with only one third-party library in the stack ^[18]. The developer's framing was careful: not 'I let AI write my code' but 'I've never moved faster in my life as a dev' ^[18], which is a claim about velocity made…

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