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Using AI requires you to stop thinking about many things. You really get out of touch with the understanding of the systems you manage.

And I say this while using AI happily and successfully to maintain a legacy system I inherited.

There's no skill required to use AI that is not also a skill required to actually develop software by yourself.

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>Using AI requires you to stop thinking about many things. You really get out of touch with the understanding of the systems you manage.

You get very in touch with the product and design. The new demands being made of the system. The requirements, what "done" looks like, how to prove the system does what it's supposed to. Everything on either end of the implementation.

I was in touch with that long before AI appeared.

"in touch" meaning, I don't know if this will work, let me ask Claude?

yeah and it seems like a lot of those skills are concentrated in the reviews section.

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