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For software developers, this is the sweet spot. Where AI-assisted software development is good enough to massively increase your productivity, but still retarded enough that your career-worth of judgement and experience is still required to get good results.
That second window will close before too long. The AI and Harness products will get good enough that a programmer is no longer needed. I think you'll still need **a human** for a while, but that human could probably be a Product Owner or highly motivated end-user vibing their own software. Not someone with a history of software development.
Overall, this will be a good thing for everyone, if it's done well. Bad for programmers, good for everyone else.
Plan accordingly.
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2026-09-01 20:54:00 UTCEvent JSON
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