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Purpose
We are at an inflection point. Our craft, some might say, is under siege as automation rapidly erodes the craft we once knew; as AI replaces us. I find this rhetoric extremely defeatist on the one hand and overreaching on the other.
For our part, we, the software developers and engineers, should embrace AI as yet another tool to take us farther faster. AI, like a new programming language or library or new technology, should be embraced, studied, mastered. Any worthy engineer I've ever talked to is keen to know what it can and cannot do. They are skeptical and hopeful and curious and tenacious. Those that are in this field just for the money, who "can code" but have never really found joy in the art of software engineering are afraid of it. They dominate social media with the doom of AI and talk of universal basic income...
Sadly, many large companies (as in the case of Agile years ago) are also seeing AI as the new panacea. AI will overnight, they believe, improve productivity. AI doesn't need to sleep or eat. It doesn't need health care. AI doesn't ask for a raise, it just dutifully... [deletes your entire production database or leaves your storage bucket open to the public].
We can laugh at this right now and say "Phew, well that does it for AI, now no one will want to use it." But this is not the right way to think about it. AI is here to stay. It will improve. There are billions of dollars working toward that goal. Kinks will be worked out and it will become a part of our everyday lives. Just not the way many doomsayers or overzealous CEOs think it will.
We are in control of that destiny. We, the software developers and engineers are in the driver's seat to shape how we engage with AI and use it to our advantage.
That is the purpose of this site. I intend to (when I have the time) write about our relationship to new technologies - to modern software developments. To comment on the current technical zeitgeist and how we need to evolve to not just weather technology like some sort of threat, but embrace it and use it as an advantage.
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