Charlie Holtz, CEO and co-founder of Conductor (YC-backed), recently walked through his entire AI coding workflow on Y Combinator's Full Stack video series. I watched it twice. Not because it was flashy. Because it confirmed something I've been feeling for months about my own AI coding workflow in 2026: the tools are incredible, but the job got harder, not easier. The easy 80% of software engineering — boilerplate, CRUD, configs, standard tests — is gone. AI ate it. What's left is the hard 20%: