Why Senior Engineers Overlook Small AI Wins

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TheMongoose · 2d ago

Why does the argument start out as "senior engineers need to use more AI coding tools" and suddenly shift to product features?

How does AI make a better error message? Why does AI need to autocomplete a form? The only argument I see here is for paying more attention to the UX, which is absolutely important, but does NOT need AI.

This smells like a "you need to prompt harder, my stonks are depending on you" take that was written by AI.

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Why Senior Engineers Overlook Small AI Wins

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