Are we putting competence aside?
26 Mar 2025
Let me start this out by saying we live in a very weird time. One could say we live in a privileged time where before software developers needed to really know their craft because they couldn’t just prompt or look at Stack Overflow posts about their problems. In fact, there are people still alive that programmed in their undergrad using punch cards, where debugging was at least a day in duration. Yet we have so much information at our disposal, plenty documentation and when there is none or its poor we can just hit a chatbot and get new documentation tailored to our question. And with this I question what will we do collectively because whenever we have something that requires no effort to use, we lean on it. If we can offload some of our brain’s processing power to it, we do.