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At the centre The job of senior people now is to demonstrate not how to use these tools effectively, but how to figure out how to use them, which is a different set of skills. Holds KBKent Beck Read this korrent →

• Similar wording In this era fluency with AI tools beats years of accumulated experience, so seniority is now a liability rather than an edge. Holds SASam Altman
• Similar wording The skill that matters now is not prompt engineering but giving a model a way to verify its own work, and it is the thing people most often get wrong. Holds BCBoris Cherny
• Similar wording For twenty-five years the senior people had the answers to hand, and what has changed is that at this moment nobody knows the answer to anything. Holds KBKent Beck
• Similar wording Struggling with a hard problem before being shown the answer is not always the best way to learn; a hint or a worked example can beat floundering. No longer holds SYScott H. Young
• Similar wording Using an AI tool well is something you have to learn, exactly as it was with object orientation; a bad first impression proves nothing. Holds MFMartin Fowler
• Similar wording A company's culture should let the most junior person overrule the most senior one with data, which is why the senior person should always speak last. Holds JBJeff Bezos
• Similar wording Line-by-line code review has become an outdated ritual: senior engineers should be giving feedback on how their team instructs AI, not on the code AI wrote. Holds CHChip Huyen
• Similar wording The data-structures-and-algorithms interview never tested a skill that transfers to the job; what it tested was whether somebody can think. Holds NENeetCode