# We Became Editors-in-Chief, and Nobody Trained Us

DevFeed: [We Became Editors-in-Chief, and Nobody Trained Us](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/we-became-editors-in-chief-and-nobody-trained-us-33286.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://freek.dev/3172-we-became-editors-in-chief-and-nobody-trained-us>)

Author: Freek Van der Herten (freek@spatie.be)

Published: 2026-08-03T14:56:25Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [freek.dev - all blogposts](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/freek-dev-all-blogposts.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [code-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-review.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [essay](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/essay.md>), [soft-skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/soft-skills.md>), [writing-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writing-code.md>)

## AI overview

An essay examines how AI-assisted development shifts engineers from writing code toward reviewing AI-generated diffs. It argues that this change creates cognitive fatigue and may widen the gap between senior and junior engineers.

## Source excerpt

An essay on how AI-assisted development turns engineers into full-time reviewers. We spend our days evaluating AI-generated diffs instead of writing code, and that shift carries a new cognitive fatigue and may widen the senior/junior gap. Read more