Engineers and AI: ramblings of a small startup founder

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Written in an attempt to wrangle my own thoughts about AI, the current and future state of software engineering: My ramblings about AI and software engineering.

Really, thoughtful and balanced write up. Striking a balance between keeping skills like reviewing and writing well structured code and using the black box to do for it or help speed you up is to going to be hard to strike. Then again, we have gone through similar shifts before e.g. LSP, search engines, stack overflow, etc.

I don't know, I suppose that as things change, they tend to remain the same in a strange way. Definitely, a disorienting time to be a software engineer right now. Even more so for new grad devs.

As someone who hasn't been a professional for too long, I'm curious. Did the general tone of tools in software engineering ever feel like this before? Where we're talking about replacing engineers instead of assisting them? I learned to code LSPs and stack overflow. I didn't get to experience them being integrated into a developers wirkflow.

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