AI Era: Developers Shift from Depth to Breadth Because AI Took the Depth
Fowe · x · 2026-08-14
User @Fowe comments that it used to be depth over breadth, but now it's breadth over depth because AI took the depth. This responds to @DeepStarts' question: why do we still judge developers by how many technologies they know when real engineering problems require deep understanding of just a few?
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