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Spend More Time Talking to Humans
LLMs have reshaped the day-to-day work of software engineering, leaving senior engineers exhausted by context-switching and junior engineers unsure how to grow. The fix isn’t a better prompt — it’s spending more time talking to humans: reducing context churn, pairing across seniority levels, and communicating more across teams.
Uncertainty and Change Are Everywhere in Software Development
The following is what I’ve come to as a set of theory and practice for adapting to what is, and continues to be, one of the most rapid changes to how work is done in arguably any career. It’s worth noting that none of this is predicated on whether you are an AI believer or a skeptic. Even if you believe that 90% of what people are claiming about AI is just hype, the remaining 10% still has the ability to radically change what it means to be a software developer.