Recently, our team worked on a highly complex solution with very demanding performance requirements.
After several brainstorming sessions, we discovered that the key wasn't a new framework or technology.
πΉIt was going back to the fundamentals:Bitsets,Graphs, DFS,Data structures and algorithms
π‘ TIME SPENT THINKING ABOUT A PROBLEM BEFORE WRITING CODE IS NOT WASTED TIME.
It is an engineering investment.
A few good brainstorming sessions can lead to a fundamentally different approach β improving performance, scalability, stability and security, while potentially avoiding weeks of optimization and rework.
This becomes even more relevant with AI coding agents.
πAI-generated solutions can also gravitate toward familiar programming patterns.
The best solution to a complex problem isn't necessarily the most common implementation.
π THAT'S WHERE FUNDAMENTALS MATTER.
AI can help us write code faster.
But fundamentals help us discover what code should be written in the first place.
The future isn't AI vs engineers.
It's:
Human reasoning + strong engineering fundamentals + AI-assisted execution
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