Writing code was never the hard part, engineer pushes back on AI coding hype
knowrohit07 · x · 2026-09-28
Engineer knowrohit07 pushes back on the idea that AI has trivialized engineering: writing code was never the problem. The hard part is wrestling with distributed systems, designing state machines, and solving problems like TLA. Engineering is more than just coding — and that core skill isn't what AI replaced.
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