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This is Part 6 of “The Centaur’s Toolkit” series, where we explore practical strategies for human-AI collaboration in technical work. Nobody likes writing documentation. I’ve never met a developer who wakes up excited to document their code. We know it’s important. We know future-us will be grateful. We still procrastinate until the last possible moment, then write the bare minimum. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s a rational response to incentives. Documentation takes time, provides no immediate feedback, and often becomes outdated before anyone reads it. The effort-to-reward ratio feels terrible. ...

This is Part 5 of “The Centaur’s Toolkit” series, where we explore practical strategies for human-AI collaboration in technical work. A new AI coding tool launches every week. Actually, that’s an understatement. Multiple tools launch every week, each promising to revolutionize your workflow. Each one has a Twitter thread explaining why it’s better than what you’re using now. If you tried to evaluate every new tool, you’d never write any code. ...

This is Part 1 of “The Centaur’s Toolkit” series, where we explore practical strategies for human-AI collaboration in technical work. You’ve been using GitHub Copilot for six months. Or maybe it’s Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor. The tab key has become your best friend. Boilerplate code that used to take twenty minutes now takes two. You feel faster. More productive. Like a coding superhero. But lately, something feels off. You catch yourself accepting suggestions without really reading them. You accept a function completion and realize you’re not entirely sure what it does. Yesterday, you spent an hour debugging code that the AI wrote, code you wouldn’t have written that way yourself. ...