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Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You
When I was 19 years old, I dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco. I had a job offer in hand to be a Unix sysadmin for Taos Consulting.
If you read a lot of breathless think pieces, you may have a mental image of software engineers merrily crafting prompts for ChatGPT, or using Copilot to generate reams of code, then committing whatever emerges to GitHub and walking away. The right way to think about tools like Copilot is more like a really fancy autocomplete or copy-paste function, or maybe like the unholy love child of Stack Overflow search results plus Google’s “I feel lucky”. The internet loves to make fun of Boomers, the generation that famously coasted to college, home ownership, and retirement, then pulled the ladder up after them while mocking younger people as snowflakes.
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