alt Hacker News> The people who typically have the most negative things to say about AI fall into camp #2 where AI is automating a large part of what they considered their art while enabling people in group #1 to iterate on their product faster.
I am in both camps. Always have been.
Code janitors about to be in high demand. We’ve always been pretty popular with leadership and it’s gonna get even more important.
Treat code design and architecture as the thing that lets your slop canons (90% of engineers even pre-ai) move fast without breaking things
My output is org velocity.
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I agree and I like how you describe it. The phrase from Django, "perfectionists with deadlines", also resonates with me.
> My output is org velocity.
Amen, slow and steady and the feature fly wheel just keeps getting faster.
>slop cannons
I am stealing that phrase haha
> Treat code design and architecture as the thing that lets your slop canons (90% of engineers even pre-ai) move fast without breaking things
I'm currently of the opinion that humans should be laser focused on the data model. If you've got the right data model, the code is simpler. If you've got the relevant logical objects and events in the database with the right expressivity, you have a lot of optionality for pivoting as the architecture evolves.
It's about that solid foundation - and of course lots of tests on the other side.