AI-assisted development is highlighting a fundamental truth about software engineering that has always existed but is now impossible to ignore:
The most valuable skill in software isn't writing code, it's architecting systems.
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I need to spend more time researching architecture den
Maybe this is why I love it. I'm an actual engineer in real life.
LLMs free you from the menial repetitive work of coding so you can focus and iterate the architecture better and faster
this is how thing have been progressing since forever
I learned that the rule of thumb is 80/20 software planning/coding. But back then we didn't even know what AI was (although we learned about the Turing test, it's completely different).