Me and You, and You and Me, so Happy Together

There's a pattern that keeps showing up in software engineering: the tools that give us the most leverage also demand the most structure.
Version control unlocked collaboration at scale, but only after teams agreed on branching strategies. Linting and formatting took out a lot of opinions during code reviews, but first we needed to have settled the "tabs vs. spaces" debate. CI/CD pipelines sped everything up, but only once contributors agreed upon a definition of done. AI coding tools are following the same arc, and the teams getting the most out of them have already figured this out.