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I think this is a naive article trying to stop a huge wave that is already here.

I know developers that fret over younger devs that have never even seen assemby and thus do not understand the code they write and so on….

Learn how to use AI to be better and faster than everyone else.

No one in a decade will pay top dollar for a slow dev that knows their handwritten code indside out.

Its all about scale and speed. Now you can argue that it takes the artisanship out of development but truth is, no one cares.

Learn how to use AI to get faster and learn how to teach the AI to be better and more accurate.

They are not coming for the tech jobs, they are already here. Just get on top of them and youll survive.

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> No one in a decade will pay top dollar for a slow dev that knows their handwritten code indside out.

But they will have to pay for the dev that can debug years of code that their fleet of prompt engineers cant figure out.

> Its all about scale and speed. Now you can argue that it takes the artisanship out of development but truth is, no one cares.

I think you're correct, the MBAs making decisions won't care, and will choose scale and speed. And so will the AI driven developers, but the actual engineers will care.

> They are not coming for the tech jobs, they are already here. Just get on top of them and youll survive.

I'm not trying to survive, and neither are any of the engineers I respect. We're all well aware of the limitations of AI, and we know it's not coming for our jobs, (not yet anyways... I guess I should give it another quality revolution or so.) We're still preoccupied with trying to thrive. AI isn't a threat to us, but it is a threat to the next generation. It's near impossible to evolve, learn, grow, and adapt if you delegate all the thinking, and understanding about the multiple layers of the system you're working on to the GenAI robit your company is paying for; (instead of paying you that money)

> I think you're correct, the MBAs making decisions won't care, and will choose scale and speed

won't that lead to aircrafts coming apart in flight, spaceships getting grounded and satellites exploding?

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