Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore

A software leader with 15 years of experience describes how practices once considered poor ideas are now working effectively on their team. The article focuses on eliminating traditional peer code review in favor of having engineers work with Claude (an AI) to generate code, then review it themselves before merging—a process that has proven successful because the code author understands the problem context better than peers, and AI tools effectively catch bugs and inconsistencies. This experience has prompted the author to reconsider how much weight their accumulated intuition should carry when evaluating technical practices, as industry conditions and tools have evolved significantly.