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Soloists, Copy-Pasters, and Tourists

Understand the AI users on your team

By Sar Haidar October 26, 2026 • 13 minute read

LinkedInXFacebookThreadsBlueskyReddit Spend a week with almost any infrastructure team in 2026 and you’ll see one AI subscription producing five very different results. One engineer opens 40 pull requests before lunch across repositories they haven’t touched in a year. Another ships a Terraform change they couldn’t explain in a code review.…