There's a line worth drawing.
On one side: the task.
The boilerplate, the boring transform,
the first draft, the tedious lookup.
Hand all of it to the machine.
On the other side: the judgment.
What to build. What "right" means here.
What to ship and what to kill.
Keep that.
The mistake isn't using AI.
It's letting it drift across the line —
letting the thing that types
quietly become the thing that decides.
Automate the typing.
Own the deciding.
The model is a fast pair of hands.
It is not a substitute
for knowing what should be done.
Give it the task.
Keep the judgment.
The moment you outsource the second one,
you stopped being the engineer.
– Serguey Asael Shinder
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