
Software Doesn't Matter Anymore. Product Does.
This post is an experiment in a new AI-assisted voice to blog capture mechanism. Developers aren’t going away. But our job is. AI can write better code than me. I’m not a great coder, but I write code roughly on par with most folks out there, and for junior engineers, AI is already better. What’s left is judgment A friend told me recently that pull request reviews are now all about architecture: the right levels of abstraction, and patterns they’ve been burned by before and don’t want to repeat. Senior engineers can spot that stuff because we’ve lived through it. Junior engineers can’t, at least not yet. ...