The AI Dilemma
The software industry has a short memory. Every generation of tooling has made the same promise: let the machine handle implementation so humans can focus on the problem, in mostly disappointing ways. Now LLMs are making the same pitch, and the instinct is to either panic or sneer. Both responses miss the point. What changed isn't the promise - it's how much of it is actually being kept. The question worth asking isn't whether to adopt, but how to do it without hollowing out the understanding that makes the tools useful in the first place.
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