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This is not my experience either. If you put the work in upfront to plan the feature, write the test cases, and then loop until they pass... you can build a lot of high quality software quickly. The difference between a junior engineer using it and a great architect using it is significant. I think of it as an amplifier.

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This honestly reads to me like "if you spend a lot of time doing tedious monotonous shit you can save a lot of time on the interesting stuff"

I have no interest being a "great architect" if architects don't actually build anything

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe" - Abraham Lincoln

  > If you put the work in upfront to plan the feature, write the test cases, and then loop until they pass...

it can be exhausting and time consuming front-loading things so deeply though; sometimes i feel like i would have been faster cutting all that out and doing it myself because in the doing you discover a lot of missing context (in the spec) anyways...

I’m amazed at how many great architects and experts on AI we now have.

> The difference between a junior engineer using it and a great architect using it is significant

Yes, juniors are trying to use AI with the minimum input. This alone tells a lot..

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