Almost No Skill Required to Cook a Steak (Though You Probably Can't Make a Decent One) | Yurii's Blog
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Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.
Cooking a steak requires almost no skill. Put it in a hot pan, wait a little, flip it, and eventually you’ll have something technically edible. But a genuinely good steak, medium-rare from edge to edge, browned properly, seasoned right, consistently delicious, is a different matter entirely. Software development with AI is starting to feel much the same. We build nonstop now. With AI, without AI, during the commute, on the toilet, probably in our sleep. We create agents, harnesses, tools, skills, prompts, feedback loops, elaborate workflows. Then we throw everything at a model and hope it…
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