Some personal hot takes from AI: Engineer Miami follows...
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Software development is a dead-end profession because anyone can be a software developer now.
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Anyone can use Cursor or any other tool and generate code. Being a coder and being a software engineer are different.
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Computers used to be gated; now everyone has the power to make computers malleable. Everyone is a software developer now, but that does not mean they are software engineers
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If you cannot demonstrate how a coding agent works, you are just a consumer and have imposed an artificial glass ceiling on your career as a software engineer.
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If you are curious, you will have a job. If you have not been curious in the last two years, you are replaceable.
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SaaS per-seat economics may become unstable as customers need fewer people to achieve results, prompting founders to think about new unit economics
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Most companies will take two or three years (or more!) to figure out AI transformation.
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Some companies are already building AI native teams of five to ten people who can build with the grain of AI
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There will be an explosion in the number of software developers. Software development is now essentially free, and tokens are cheaper than humans
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Not enough engineers know what it means to be a product engineer
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JIRA ticket monkeys are cooked
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If your company has banned AI, you should quit that company
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AI is more like a musical instrument than just a tool. Play with it, make discoveries, build intuition, learn where AI is good and where it fails