Why Senior Engineers End Up More Exhausted After AI Adoption
Your team adopted AI coding tools and shipped faster—but your seniors are burning out. Juniors push 300 lines an hour with Cursor; seniors spend two hours reviewing, patching tests, and chasing edge cases the AI didn’t see. Throughput went up, cognitive load went up steeper. Three lenses on why the bottleneck shifted from writing to reviewing—code review structure, ownership boundaries, AI trust tiers—and how to stop using your seniors as human linters.