I like to think we are a culmination of humanity’s research and development so we owe it to them to at least skim the DOEs before attempting our own. But then I find myself to be the most creative code wise when I don’t know if something is possible yet.
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I still think you are talking about an architect and principal engineering level - which AI is not going to replace for a long while. It’s a productivity multiplier and maybe will replace junior developers at most. But that still seems another year or so away if not longer
I’m curious what you think of hardware tech debt. Specs that were perfectly viable at the time, but as a result of Moore’s law and software improvements/complexity increases, are made obsolete.