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The Pragmatic Engineer — Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
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Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

The Pragmatic Engineer

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“@12:00 - why are we just accepting as fact that I will have to let an LLM generate code and I won't read it before going to production? We don't do this for other engineers, so why do LLMs get a pass?”

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“Hearing these two break down the AI shift is somehow feels like sitting in on two fish debating the mechanics of flying....”

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“Imagine if a great musical composer such as Mozart was told by his patrons (i.e. what we now call "management" ), that in order to 10x his productivity he had to start typing in representations of musical notes on a keyboard using using alp…”

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“People always come at AI with the same mindset "this can do everything, but it can't do what I do" frontend devs say AI can do backend, but not frontend and vice versa, in this case she advocates for not reading the code and instead have ob…”

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