What a grounded take on this and wished more people saw it this way

Just yet another case of people seeing only the extremes and not the entire spectrum

You nailed it: in a corporate setting, code is definitely not the hardest part and it’s why companies can sometimes make do with a skeleton crew of offshore engineers who make $20-$30 bucks an hour

The way harder part is building the right thing and just designing the thing soundly to begin with

This type of software is where AI absolutely kills it - problems with tons of forum posts, writing code for systems with a ton of various kinds of quality developer documentation

On the other hand, if you’re doing something novel or sending a $10bn machine to mars, you probably don’t want to yolo it with AI