AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
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- The software industry is changing, but abandoning code reading and writing is risky, leading to unmaintainable code.
- Bad code is hard to read, understand, evolve, and test, with effects taking months or years to manifest.
- Expert developers use intuition gained from experience to identify code smells, unlike rule-based approaches.
- AI is not trained on long-term maintainability and often produces non-reusable, poorly structured code.
- Over-reliance on AI prevents humans from achieving mastery, as they stop making and learning from mistakes.
- LLMs are useful for mundane tasks but are just tools; their prominence may fade over time.
- Future competitive advantage may come from 'NO-AI' policies, as the software industry has always automated.
- Coding isn't solved by AI; alternatives like cloning compilers exist, and attention should shift to new goals.