I am the VP of Engineering at a popular Swedish streaming company. My best engineers have not written a single line of code since December. I promoted them. All of them. Twice. The second time was for not writing code faster. They deploy from Slack. On their phones. On the train. From the bathroom toilet. One of our senior engineers shipped a production update between Grand Central and 125th Street. He was standing. Holding a coffee. Using his thumb. He didn't look up. He got Engineer of the Month. The plaque says "Exemplary Thumb Velocity." The deployment system is called Honk. I did not name it. I did not question the name. I approved a $4.2 million budget for it. Honk deploys code that an AI wrote, reviewed by an AI, tested by an AI, and shipped by a human who was also swiping on Hinge. He matched. He also shipped. Both with his thumb. We put that in the investor deck. Some engineers still write code by hand. We have a name for them internally: "unoptimized." They are in coaching. The coaching is a thirty-minute session where someone shows them how to type prompts into Claude from their phone. One engineer refused. He said he "wanted to understand the system he was building." We let him go. His exit interview was conducted by Honk. He was not aligned with our engineering culture. Our co-CEO announced this on stage. As a brag. He said, "Our best developers have not written a single line of code since December." The audience clapped. ...