Back in the 2010s, the best, most efficient software engineers were characterized by 3 things

* end to end rough map of the entire space of compute in their head

* ability to search the internet for the right things

* ability to quickly experiment and try things to figure out how to do things

AI hasn't change that, it just made 2 and 3 into a very efficient thing.

The characterization of psychosis is best described by believing AI can do the first thing. No modern LLM can "reason" - otherwise you could give it a task like "make me money", it would ask you all the questions it needs about information that it doesn't know about and needs to know to make you money, then it would set whatever it needs to set up to make you money.

As such, you still need to know the domain entirely to be effective. When you do that, AI is fantastic at getting you to the right solution. Furthermore, its still in large part actually cheaper to higher a developer who then can use AI to build you the product that you need long term.

> No modern LLM can "reason" - otherwise you could give it a task like "make me money", it would ask you all the questions it needs about information that it doesn't know about and needs to know to make you money, then it would set whatever it needs to set up to make you money.

If that's your bar for reasoning, then most people can't reason either.