In late 2024/early 2025 when I was “getting back on the tools” after a few years of management, I realised that I didn’t really want to go back to dev mode again.
Fortunately I’d been experimenting with LLMs for work, early GitHub and Cursor with the tab and code- block completion, and it was clear that these tools would increasingly allow me to design and build things without having to dev mode again
I, like many others, have been aggressively pushing to leverage the tools for maximum utility. They are still lacking in areas, and you do need to invest heavily in experimentation, but it’s abundantly clear that human time and effort is better spent up the value chain and not writing any code whatsoever.
Maybe we haven’t yet passed the threshold for all codebases or projects, but it’s only a matter of when, not if.
Fortunately I’d been experimenting with LLMs for work, early GitHub and Cursor with the tab and code- block completion, and it was clear that these tools would increasingly allow me to design and build things without having to dev mode again
I, like many others, have been aggressively pushing to leverage the tools for maximum utility. They are still lacking in areas, and you do need to invest heavily in experimentation, but it’s abundantly clear that human time and effort is better spent up the value chain and not writing any code whatsoever.
Maybe we haven’t yet passed the threshold for all codebases or projects, but it’s only a matter of when, not if.
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