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Man this cut like a knife. Perfectly put into words the dichotomy I've felt with AI coding. Anyone else?

I think the skills we need to lean into are the problem solving skills, for the business, and for the customer. The code is a means to the end of happy customers paying us for useful things.

I agree. But, the brutal truth is that the coding skill I've spent decades building is becoming a commodity like never before. I've always enjoyed the craft of good software and I feel like an artisan shoe maker in the age of Nike.

That's a very clever and sharp analogy - artisan shoe maker in the age of Nike. I wish you were wronger.

I understand the sentiment. But I still think we’re miles from being able to drop a reliance on good software engineers who can understand and fix all the code that’s being generated.

I was working on a prompt for agent backlog tickets, and I was writing something about prioritizing readability / clarity over clever code so it's easier for future devs to follow. Then I realized I might be the last human to ever read this code. I sat and thought on that for a while.

Well that’s a hell of a thought

I don’t mean to invalidate the feeling. I’ve been through it many times in waves. The first time I remember feeling that was when the first version of copilot was released. That was before ChatGPT even came out.