📌 Nobody’s real job is “writing code” anymore. Mine stopped being that months ago - I just didn’t notice until recently.
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Over 3 months in as a Tech Lead on AI features in e-commerce.
I used to measure a good day by how much I shipped. Now I measure it by how much I caught, planned and refined in parallel.
3 shifts I didn’t see coming:
→ The AI writes the first draft in seconds. My value isn’t typing anymore - it’s knowing which of the three “working” solutions we’ll regret in six months. ✅ Learn business knowledge of your project ASAP!
→ Speed made taste the bottleneck. When anyone can generate code, the rare skill is judgment: what to keep, what to throw away, what not to build at all. ✅ Learn that!
→ Reviewing became the real writing. I spend more time reading diffs than producing them - and that’s where the engineering actually lives now. 😎 Do you review your PRs at all??
Which is why I’ve stopped calling the people who thrive here “fast.” They’re not fast. ❤️ They’r...
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