There have been so many perspectives on the future of AI and its effect on the human race, spanning the full spectrum from pessimism to optimism. However compelling the arguments behind any one of these perspectives are, one must not forget that they are, after all, just a perspective — formed in a limited context,…
Generating code has become a commodity. That’s exactly why the software engineer’s role isn’t fading — it’s more important than ever. I wrote up the AI myths I keep running into as a Principal Engineer: why “AI belongs everywhere” is wrong, why commit counts are a broken way to measure productivity, and why prompt precision…
