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I stopped writing code by hand (and why that is good news)
Hey friend, I don't really write code by hand anymore. I describe what I want, and the AI builds it. For a while, that scared me. If I am not writing the code, does everything I spent years learning still matter? Does my stack matter at all? If you are a developer right now, I would bet you have felt some version of that too. Here is where I landed. It flipped the whole thing for me. The other day I was debugging a slow app, talking it through with the AI. Would WebAssembly help here? Is it the render mode? A database problem? I had hypotheses. I could weigh the options. And when the answer came back, I could tell whether it actually made sense. Now picture that same moment in a stack you do not know at all. You would have to ask the AI what is wrong and just trust whatever it hands back. No way to know if it is right, half right, or confidently wrong. That is the whole thing. My .NET knowledge did not become worthless when I stopped typing the code. It became the thing that lets me steer the AI and check its work instead of blindly trusting it. I am the pilot. Someone without that foundation is a passenger, just hoping the autopilot knows what it is doing. AI made the typing cheap. It did not make the judgment cheap. If anything, it made judgment the whole game. So these days I would rather deeply understand vertical slice architecture, or how to profile a slow query, than memorize one more API. One of those makes me dangerous with AI. The other, the AI already handles. The full story is in this week's video: Take care, P.S. This pilot-not-passenger thing is exactly what we drill inside the Blazor AI Accelerator. Four live weeks with me, building real things with AI on a foundation you actually understand. Grab an early-bird seat before July 1. |
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