The shame isn't about AI. It's about ownership. I run three companies and I've noticed the discomfort shows up when someone can't answer "what did YOU decide h

The shame isn't about AI. It's about ownership. I run three companies and I've noticed the discomfort shows up when someone can't answer "what did YOU decide here?" If your AI drafted the code, the email, the strategy, that's where I feel like people have lost the plot. If you can't defend the decision behind it, that's where the wobble comes from. It's the same thing when growing a company. You don't outsource every decision to each individual contributor. You need mission vision and values + strategic thinking coming from the leaders to lead the team. Same with agents. The devs on my team who ship the most are the ones who treat AI like a very fast junior, they still own the diff. The ones who feel weird are usually the ones who shipped something they don't fully understand. Disclosure: I'm building in the AI-assistant-for-founders space, so I talk to a lot of people about this. The pattern is consistent across roles, not just dev.