the people confidently saying "AI will replace engineers" have clearly never shipped software to real users we're spending about $25k per month on AI tokens at @beehiiv & I'd still classify AI's impact on our shipping velocity and output as "marginal" here's what actually happens inside a real product team: > the gains are wildly uneven. some engineers have used agents to 10x their output. others use AI more modestly > code quality is a live concern. there's still occasional pushback on how…