English Is the New Programming Language: A Real Terraform-to-AI Handoff Story
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-10-07
Engineer jaydeepkarale argues clear communication is now the core engineering skill: "thinking is 50% of the job; translating it into clear, succinct, unambiguous instructions is the other, more important 50%." He walks through a real task—adding a Firebase integration to an Azure Notification Hub for a team lacking Terraform expertise, with legacy AZ CLI setup and state-management headaches—showing how understanding the situation, then explicitly telling the AI what to copy, how to handle state, and what to leave untouched, is what makes it work. Quoting @johncrickett: most people can't clearly state what they want or how to verify it—or as it used to be called, requirements.
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