Why did AI coding make Dillon Mulroy more productive and less happy? He stopped writing most of his own code after Claude Opus 4.5. Six months later he ships more than he ever has, still reads every line, and enjoys the work less. The small implementation hits that used to create flow are gone. The day is now one hard design problem after another, and that is more exhausting.
Dillon is a principal engineer at Cloudflare. This episode answers what Cloudflare's May layoff of about 1,100 people looked like from inside, why lab-style agent loops are a poor default for most teams, and how he keeps a model on a short leash with Ghostty, Herdr, Pi, and Plannotator. Specs are TypeScript types, call stacks, and tests. Pull requests stay in the 300 to 800 line range. He uses Pi's slash tree instead of sub-agents.
Dillon is on X at @dillon_mulroy, GitHub at @dmmulroy, and Twitch at @dillon. https://dillonis.online
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