The Simplicity Trap: Why AI is making us "simple" in the wrong way (or not)

People like to talk about how simple things are. “Look at this code I wrote, simple, elegant, just a few new lines and reutilizing an existing framework and it does all the job I need” “Check out this magic bash one liner blob. I paste it, and it simply configures everything for me” “Claude Code vibed the entire backend of my app in one go, and when I run it, it simply just works” In engineering,…