How to Keep Thinking in the Age of AI
round · x · 2026-08-13
The article explores how software engineers should work and think in 2026, when AI agents can handle most tasks.
- Shift in Work Mode: The most efficient way to work today is to spin off tasks to AI and continually context-switch between results. This requires developers to rapidly skim and judge AI outputs.
- The Pressure to Speed Up: While carefully reading LLM outputs is safer, it is tedious and miserable. More importantly, in a highly competitive tech industry, using AI to work faster is a necessity to avoid being outcompeted.
- Potential Drawbacks: The author worries that working with LLMs is making us intellectually duller—biasing the brain towards quick skimming and judging at the expense of slow, careful reflection.
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