Articles tagged “AI”

Autopilot has existed in commercial aviation for decades. Airlines still employ highly trained pilots. The reason why is one of the clearest explanations I know for what AI will and won't do to software engineering — and why the most important skill you can develop right now is not prompting.

Vibe coding is real, it is productive, and for engineers who already understand what they are building, it is genuinely transformative. The problem is what happens when it becomes the primary way a developer learns to build software — before they ever develop the ability to build it without the AI.

AI is more likely to become a force multiplier for capable engineers than a replacement for them. But 'capable' is doing real work in that sentence. Here's a practical perspective on what's actually changing, what isn't, and what it means for engineers building their careers right now.

There's a wide gap between an AI demo and a production AI system. After integrating AI capabilities into real products, I want to offer an engineer's honest account of where AI provides genuine value, where it introduces serious risk, and what production-grade AI operations actually look like.