What Scott Hanselman thinks about writing

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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1. 4 Feb 2026

   Our readingAs AI takes over more of the coding process, clearly specifying goals and exercising good judgment will matter more than ever.

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   Their wordsAs high-level programming cedes way to the prose compiler, making your goals and specs well understood to the ambiguity loop and showing good judgment is going to matter more than ever.

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