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I have a lot of respect for Geoffrey Huntley. So when I read his blog posts about AI over the past couple of months: “Dear Student: Yes, AI is here, you’re screwed unless you take action…” and “The future belongs to people who can just do things” among others, I thought to myself - “am I missing something?”

This image of his, in particular, summarizes his take on AI and the impact it’s going to have on the software development industry:

He’s essentially singing the same song that people who sell AI courses do: “if you’re not dropping everything to learn AI right now, you’re going to get left behind!” His conclusion to “The future belongs to people who can just do things” ends thusly:

Ya know that old saying ideas are cheap and execution is everything? Well it’s being flipped on its head by AI. Execution is now cheap. All that matters now is brand, distribution, ideas and [retraining] people who get it. The entire concept of time and delivery pace is different now.

Distribution, brand, et al are important - no doubt. The idea that any LLM, even ones with future capabilities, is a catch-all substitute for experience is laughable.

In a world where typing in the right prompt to a chat window is “all you need” for “execution,” this actually makes idea guys even more commodified and worthless than they already are - and they’re already worthless.

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