David Khourshid: tactical programming is dead, strategic programming matters more than ever
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-09-07
Responding to Matt Pocock's take that tactical programming is dead and strategic programming has never been more vital, David Khourshid (DavidKPiano) says years of thinking in state machines made him care much more about the problem than the code — as AI generates more of the code, problem modeling matters most.
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