🟣 Part 4: Mauve Is the New Rose
Part 4 of the Mauve series: my company handed engineers a "how to use the AI tool" doc. Buried in the mental model — you're not coding anymore, you're managing a team. Nobody asked.
🧮 Part 3: In Bots We Trust
A teammate told me he trusts a pull request more now that it's passed his review, plus a couple of agents built to catch what he might miss. Three layers of review sounds like safety. It might just be a receipt for a problem nobody fixed.
🐑 Part 1: Who's the Shepherd When the Sheep Write the Code?
Our senior director says if Mauve isn't working for you, you're just not a power user. I've got ten unreviewed PRs, a bot that commits as me, and a question nobody wants to answer: who's actually driving?
Move Fast and Break Everyone
I spent 20 years building the tools that were supposed to save us. Instead, I think I helped build a circus. This is the confession part.
You're Not a User. You're a Cron Job.
Most "automated" systems aren't. They're load-bearing people wearing a workflow disguise. And AI is just the latest version of the same compromise we've been shipping for years.
They Were So Preoccupied With Whether They Could 🦖
Jeff Goldblum delivered that line in 1993 as sci-fi cautionary tale. Thirty years later it's a product roadmap — and your company isn't just running the park anymore. They're replacing the park rangers. And the engineers reviewing AI PRs aren't overseers. They're the training data.
We Regret to Inform You That the Parody Is the Reality 🤯
We're living inside a sci-fi parody that can't decide which genre it is. Robots, AI takeover, authoritarian drift, alien disclosure, and the end of expertise. It would be funny. It's not.