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Simple. I use my brain and write code without coding agents.
Tough to do this when the rest of the company is using LLMs to generate 3x the number of apps and then your performance goes down because you're not delivering as quickly as others
What I do to compensate:
- make it my duty to own every change, i.e. cognitively debt-free:
- write summaries on every new thing I do (blog post, memo to colleague)
- contribute documentation to the open-source projects I rely on
- practice for CKA/CKAD certificates which require pre-LLM muscle memory
- build interactive learning material for what I’m trying to learn
- work with things that LLMs don’t yet trivially solve
- repeat or reconstruct my recipes to perfect workflows,
For every skill that may atrophy, I feel like I am developing experience in 10 new ones. I am not focused on using AI to perform my existing job function though, I am developing new capabilities.
prompting is not a skill. prompt engineering, harness engineering watever are copes.
As someone who is and always has been a very unapologetic skeptic, I am still surprised by the number of capable people who can't accept that things are changing.
It can't be either none of it matters, or all of it matters. The truth lies in the middle somewhere.
Simple. I use my brain and write code without coding agents.
Tough to do this when the rest of the company is using LLMs to generate 3x the number of apps and then your performance goes down because you're not delivering as quickly as others
Architecture decisions, requirements analysis, trade-offs in technology selection, and cross-system debugging—these high-level cognitive activities cannot yet be replaced by AI. Focusing on these areas is actually a smarter skill investment.
They can be easily replaced. I suspect we are just engaging in a form of self deception by thinking these choices we make are more than arbitrary decisions driven by nothing but our taste...
For every skill that may atrophy, I feel like I am developing experience in 10 new ones. I am not focused on using AI to perform my existing job function though, I am developing new capabilities.
prompting is not a skill. prompt engineering, harness engineering watever are copes.
I am curious how the workflow of people, who do not write code at all, looks like, or what products do they build. In my experience LLMs are an excavator, but you still have to tweak the fine details with a shovel.
For every skill that may atrophy, I feel like I am developing experience in 10 new ones. I am not focused on using AI to perform my existing job function though, I am developing new capabilities.
prompting is not a skill. prompt engineering, harness engineering watever are copes.
Harness engineering is a skill insofar as it's not a trivial engineering problem. It's not super hard to get a simple one running, but an effective one can be quite in depth.
For every skill that may atrophy, I feel like I am developing experience in 10 new ones. I am not focused on using AI to perform my existing job function though, I am developing new capabilities.
prompting is not a skill. prompt engineering, harness engineering watever are copes.