Pattern: The 'Verification Gap' Reframed as Knowledge Half-Life, Not Workload
A paddo.dev essay published 23 August 2026 argues the standard burnout research on AI coding is from the previous regime, DORA has no 2026 report and there is no Stack Overflow 2026 survey, so the most-quoted studies describe a job where a developer used an assistant rather than supervised an agent. It pairs the Sonar survey of 1,100+ developers, 96% do not fully trust AI-written code while only 48% always check it before it ships, with earlier Faros telemetry on review queues collapsing, then makes a second argument that the real tax is expiry: MCP's 28 July spec removed sessions, DeepSeek's flat pricing ended 16 August, and five Claude Code releases landed in four days this month. Its prescription is concrete, keep your tools still and let the models change underneath, because knowing how you work is the expensive thing to rebuild.
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