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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Geoffrey Litt just proposed a new analogy for working with AI coding tools that I really like: you are the surgeon, staying in command and doing the most challenging work - the AI tools are your support team and surgical assistants simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/24/...

simonwillison.netA quote from Geoffrey LittA lot of people say AI will make us all "managers" or "editors"...but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view! Personally, I'm trying to code like a surgeon. A …
Hans Yu
@u49n7nox.bsky.social

The surgeon analogy has existed at least since Fred Brooks' Mythical Man Month. It makes me wonder if we are essentially repeating all our learnings from software engineering and project management, in the context of AI.