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Earning Judgment
Addy Osmani argues that as AI automates routine tasks, developers must focus on cultivating 'taste' and 'judgment' to remain indispensable.
What: Osmani suggests that because AI agents can handle tasks that are easily graded, humans must shift their focus to identifying problems and verifying outcomes, which cannot be easily automated.
Why it matters: The role of the software engineer is moving away from code production and toward high-level architectural oversight and decision-making.
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The world is short on people who can find the right problem, tell whether the machine solved it, and finish past where the machine stopped. Agents scale infinitely while humans don't. Anything gradable by someone else is getting automated. Seek taste and judgment on purpose, as they will stay durable and ungradable.
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