This is an interesting set of reflections on what it means to use AI to develop software. There's the good and there's the bad. "AI is the most powerful tool I've ever used. It's also the most draining. Both things are true... If you're tired, it's not because you're doing it wrong. It's because this is genuinely hard. The tool is new, the patterns are still forming, and the industry is pretending that more output equals more value. It doesn't. Sustainable output does." And AI fundamentally changes the job from being a creator using deterministic tools to being a code reviewer using (untrustworthy) non-deterministic tools. Again, this all points to the idea that AI is not eliminating the need for skills, but changing the skills we need. Via Martin Fowler, who credits Tim Bray.
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