AI can write the code.
AI can write the docs.
AI can write the tests.
AI can even write the PR description explaining why the code is definitely correct.
What it cannot reliably do is decide what should be built, ask the uncomfortable question in the room, convince people to change direction, or notice that everyone is solving the wrong problem.
As the cost of producing output keeps dropping, the value shifts to judgment, communication, taste, context, and knowing what not to do.
So yes, soft skills matter. They are just becoming increasingly hard requirements.
Soft skills are not really "soft" anymore.
Race pace Zandvoort: Charles Leclerc was much faster than Hamilton.
Ferrari robbed him of a certain podium finish with that horrible pitstops strategy.
[📸: Formula Data Analysis]
Hamilton fans are genuinely saying “costing Lewis a podium” when the man got a free pitstop and couldn’t even overtake Russel who was on 388282 old hards 😭😭😭
Apple chosing not to fund bottomless pits of AI capex but instead bottomless pits of sci-fi movies will be remembered as a hero of this era 🫡
Thank you Apple !