LLMs End Code Rationing, Empower Yes Engineers
For 50 years, software engineering ran on code rationing. Writing code was expensive, so we rationed it carefully through roadmaps, RFCs, prioritization meetings, and scope reviews. This created a role: the No Engineer. No, that won't scale. No, we don't have bandwidth. No, that's out of scope. No, we need a design doc first. The No Engineer was valuable for 50 years. Every "no" saved real money. Their judgment was the rationing system. LLMs will be the end of code rationing. Code is cheap now. And while the No Engineer is explaining why something can't be done, the Yes Engineer has already shipped three versions of it. If you're a Yes Engineer, the next decade is yours.
AI Mistakes Will Soon Be Called Errors, Not Hallucinations
In two years, nobody serious will call AI errors hallucinations. Error is the better word. An error is a human thing, and humans have been building guardrails around errors for centuries - editors, checklists, code reviews. Errors we know how to handle.