The biggest take off in AI isn’t a lobster, it is that millions of weekly phone calls to confirm trucking loads and appointments that used to be done by overseas call centers and are now done by AI callers.
It flipped in like 12 months.
probably the only thing that matters right now in a team is just the ability to ship, everything else can be adjusted and learned with abundant intelligence
The most unexpected consequence of using AI tools for software development has been that I have more time and energy to actually read SWE books and documentation now.
This is a pleasant surprise.
i’ve never been more inspired to become a better SWE
i spend about ~45 mins a day coding with zero AI tools, learning documentation, browsing libraries
benefits:
> time to execution dropped by half, i have a sharper sense of what needs to get done, how it will look, and therefore get it done faster
> less time debugging, AI’s make more mistakes than you realize if you don’t know what it’s actually writing. i stopped treating it like a black box
> culturally inspired to contribute back to OSS. the amount of public libraries that hold up our world is fucking insane. contributions actually make the world a better place. still finding the repo that i feel alignment with
i “learned” to code in college about ~3 years ago, and until NOW do i feel like i’m actually getting started