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Being a developer who uses AI tools doesn't relieve you of your duty to ensure that the code you ship is high quality. Today, Claude tried to automatically grant admin status to users and even enshrined it into a test. It was hidden in a PR with a few hundred lines of code change, and it would have been easier to let those eyes glaze over and just click merge. But there's a reason you're sitting in your seat. Don't abdicate your authority.

Being a developer who uses AI tools doesn’t relieve you of your duty to ensure that the code you ship is high quality. Today, Claude tried to automatically grant admin status to users and even enshrined it into a test. It was hidden in a PR with a few hundred lines of code change, and it would have been easier to let those eyes glaze over and just click merge. But there’s a reason you’re sitting in your seat. Don’t abdicate your authority.

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