@chriscoyier "can" seems to be mentally transposed with "will" by executives, and it elides the fact that code generation getting cheaper means that the new most important skill is knowing to ask for *good* code (for whatever version of "good" matters in your domain). These tools spit out crap by default, and that won't change because the corpuses they're trained on are pretty average.
A sense of taste and occasion, combined with understanding what's possible, is the new (old) differentiator.
@slightlyoffAlex Russell @chriscoyier yup 100% this. The biggest danger to engineering careers right now isn't AI, it's business leaders who think AI can eliminate engineering.
The difference between unguided random production and the output from an experienced engineer with an LLM is stark. But what we're going to see in the short to mid term is many exec leaderships pushing to eliminate engineering orgs and that'll work kinda if average or below average output is sufficient which for many it might be?
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