The New Software World
- I'm all AI, all the time, and I'm never going back.
- I've been more productive this year than in any the 36 prior years I've been programming.
- I can think more in terms of realizing the things I imagine instead of going off into the weeds of implementation.
- The design/write/try/redesign/rewrite loop is much, much tighter. This was the promise of Visual Basic, and it's been realized now.
- The site you're looking at now is a good example.
- Not everyone will get the same results with AI.
- I'm an expert software developer, so I get expert results.
- A novice software developer will still get novice results, just more quickly.
- You still need to be an expert at whatever field you're in to get expert results.
- You have to know what questions to ask.
- You have to know a wrong answer when you see it.
- If I gave an interview for a software-development position today…
- I'd give the user a spec for an application and a harness
- I'd see how close they got to the application's spec, and compare their results with other interviewees
- It's almost a guarantee that the quality would vary wildly among applicants
- Writing software with AI is a skill
- I've gotten better at it over time
- Learning how to use your tools is still as important as it was before AI
- Learning the skill of software design is now even more important.
