Tag: opinion
All the articles with the tag "opinion".
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AI Is an Exoskeleton, Not a Coworker
A rigorous study found AI-assisted developers are 19% slower yet believe they're 24% faster. The gap reveals that AI is best understood as an exoskeleton — amplifying human judgment rather than replacing it — and that the real risk isn't bad code but cognitive debt from velocity without understanding.
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Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything
AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues that the value has shifted from writing code to defining systems — contracts, invariants, SLAs, and verification.
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A Practitioner's Guide to AI-Assisted Development
The journey from AI-sceptic to agent-native isn't a smooth ramp — it's a series of uncomfortable jumps. This post maps the stages of AI-assisted development and identifies three critical fulcrums where developers get stuck.
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Stop Calling LLMs "Junior Developers." They're Monkey Paws.
Why the 'junior developer' metaphor for LLMs creates dangerous expectations, and how the Monkey Paw framing from folklore leads to better decisions about autonomy, specification, and organisational governance.
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The Meme, the Agent, and the Leverage Gap
Why the real value of AI tools isn't single-step task solving but tackling entire classes of problems at scale, from managing information overload to continuous monitoring, and how to find the leverage worth closing.