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What AI coding costs engineers

25 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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A Claude Code team member warns that relying heavily on AI coding agents can isolate engineers from their teammates. The team countered this by introducing pair programming lunches and shared maker time to keep collaboration and knowledge sharing alive.

What is lost in this new world for engineers? On the Claude Code team, after a while we felt it could start being a lonely experience, cuz we all started just working with our agents so much. So recently we started a pairwise programming lunch. Everybody uses Claude Code and CodeWork, everybody uses the flow so differently. And so we found that, wow, when we do pairwise programming, we actually learn so much from each other. And then the other thing too is we also have a maker time together just to make sure we're interacting together as a team.