Forrest Brazeal:
“I think that AI has killed, or is about to kill, pretty much every single modifier we want to put in front of the word “developer.”
“.NET developer”? Meaningless. Copilot, Cursor, etc can get anyone conversant enough with .NET to be productive in an afternoon … as long as you’ve done enough other programming that you know what to prompt.”
From https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-death-of-the-modified-developer
https://indieweb.social/@fatrat/113056013841232498
Simon Willison /
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2024-08-31 13:01:41
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