If you’re not considering this as part of the product, you’re moving backward. The massive pivot that is AI is reshaping every aspect of what we do. This pivot feels like it is happening overnight, but it will be longer. It only feels shorter because we are all going through it, whereas generally, one industry goes through a pivotal change at a time, but now it’s everyone. And if you haven’t felt it yet, that’s…
Our expertise is currently in an evolutionary stage of change. You might have titles and awards that you have earned, but does AI answer everything you do better? It’s a hard pill to swallow, but yes, it truly might – but it hasn’t seen or done what you have done. So the next question becomes – what is your value to evolve to in this area of growth and development? What your expertise is in…
I see lots of articles on how many tokens you are using to accomplish your task. The tradeoff is whether you are learning at the same time that your token use is skyrocketing. If you are beautiful, if not, I have questions. Don’t give up your learning for a few token counts – iterate, research, read, improve – those are tokens we’ve been consuming all along.
AI will never name its classes or projects as cool as I do. I can prompt it, kick it, push it – but it will never be as cool as the ones that I give it. Never be steeped in so much meaning from what the team has been through that only they get the inside joke. Maybe one day. But not for a while, hopefully for a long time, because this and our cool…
I still write documentation and/or review it. There is still a need for it. Whether it’s done quickly by AI, reviewed by me, or written by me from scratch – we need to know how things work. When I would have problems studying, writing things out always helped me learn more and fill in gaps of what I had missed. That is the magic of a manual when you give it to someone – here…