Left of the Loop: A Fool with a Tool is Still a Fool

"A fool with a tool is still a fool." — often attributed to Grady Booch I keep coming back to this quote when I watch teams adopt AI. In my last post (https://schrottner.at/2026/06/18/The-Wrong-End-of-the-Problem.html) I wrote about shifting the engineering process left — spec sessions, autonomous a