Why AI Is Making Good Engineers More Valuable

If the machine can write the code, what’s your decade of experience for? In this episode we take that fear seriously and then argue the opposite — that AI is making genuinely good engineers more valuable, not less.

We get into where the value always actually lived: not in producing code, but in knowing what to build, what not to build, and which design will hurt in eighteen months. AI doesn’t have that judgement — and by making code cheap to produce, it makes the judgement around it the bottleneck.

We’re honest that some work really was just typing, and those roles are exposed. But for anyone whose value was taste and knowing why, AI is the best amplifier they’ve ever had — and the smart businesses will hoard that talent, not cut it.

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