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0 pointsdelusional1mo ago0 comments

> It’s basically saying that good engineers are better at using the tool.

That's extremely reductive. It's perfectly possible for an engineer to be both a fantastic engineer, and bad at using AI. The opposite also exists, the great AI user, who is a terrible engineer.

The idea that these two "skills" are somehow 100% correlated or there's a causation link between them is completely unfounded. The person who becomes a fine engineer with AI, might have been an absolutely terrible engineer without it.

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clapthewind1mo ago· 1 in thread

> It's perfectly possible for an engineer to be both a fantastic engineer, and bad at using AI

In this era, AI native skills are the major factor, alongside system design, which define who's fantastic. As an example, deep programming language or framework knowledge is a commodity now and not meaningful as a skill difference.

delusionalOP1mo ago

That entirely the wrong point to take away from my comment.

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