Our colleague Jacob shed a light on working with AI in a post he wrote back in June, Contemplations. One of his points was that, with AI being more and more ubiquitous in our work as software developers, sophisticated programming concepts are starting to become irrelevant. The AI doesn’t care how elegant the code is, it spits out something that works. In the end that’s what matters to the business; it just works.

I learned about Rich Sutton’s "Bitter Lesson" recently, and I can’t help but draw parallels between the work on the cutting edge he describes and our daily work using AI as software engineers.