Nice summary and thanks for the mention! It's uncertain time for many, and it's important to not fall into the hype and focus on what matters in the long run.
The "AI amplifies whoever uses it" framing is the right one. The juniors I see pulling ahead aren't the ones racing to master every new tool, they're the ones with enough fundamentals to recognize when an LLM is confidently wrong. AI doesn't replace judgment, it just makes the absence of it visible faster.
Nobody wants to say it because it goes against the grain but I'm going to say it: some of the most resiliant and highly sought after developers 2 years from now will be the ones who silently resisted AI tooling and sharpened their minds and their own skills instead. AI is going to become so cost ineffective and frustrating that a big backlash is coming, from the top down as well as from the bottom up. Most of the productivity boosts are imagined and don't hold up to scrutiny. The true cost of outsourcing your abilities to an algorithm could be loss of those skills, so I wouldn't risk it. Stay human and you'll be worth a lot more to enterprise in the future once they wake up from their fantasy.
Nice summary and thanks for the mention! It's uncertain time for many, and it's important to not fall into the hype and focus on what matters in the long run.
Absolutely. Thanks so much for the involvement.
The "AI amplifies whoever uses it" framing is the right one. The juniors I see pulling ahead aren't the ones racing to master every new tool, they're the ones with enough fundamentals to recognize when an LLM is confidently wrong. AI doesn't replace judgment, it just makes the absence of it visible faster.
Completely. It's funny, isn't it. The industry has never been under such intense change, but really, all the old advice is the best advice.
Nobody wants to say it because it goes against the grain but I'm going to say it: some of the most resiliant and highly sought after developers 2 years from now will be the ones who silently resisted AI tooling and sharpened their minds and their own skills instead. AI is going to become so cost ineffective and frustrating that a big backlash is coming, from the top down as well as from the bottom up. Most of the productivity boosts are imagined and don't hold up to scrutiny. The true cost of outsourcing your abilities to an algorithm could be loss of those skills, so I wouldn't risk it. Stay human and you'll be worth a lot more to enterprise in the future once they wake up from their fantasy.