Sorry friend, this is just blatantly false in late 2026. 92% of software engineers use AI coding tools every day. The list of luminaries in our field now coding with AI is much longer than the list who are avoiding it.

The flip side is that only a third of devs trust the AI code, which is wise depending on what that means exactly, but that’s a different claim than the idea that if you care, you don’t use LLMs to code, and that it’s wildly controversial in our field to code with AI. It was, like two years ago. It’s not anymore. Sorry.

And I have no idea where to start on the idea that it’s never reasonable to trade caution for speed. I can only conclude you’ve only ever been one of those employees who doesn’t understand your actual job: to deliver value to the business so it can make money. Your job isn’t to be careful and build a beautiful elegant system so it can exist. You’re there to solve a problem in a timeframe where the ROI of paying you is positive. If you exercise endless caution and never ship anything, you will have thus failed at the actual job.