Code Is Becoming English, Engineers Are Becoming Poets: Taste Beats Syntax in the AI Era
Abhishekcur · x · 2026-10-18
The author argues code is becoming like English and engineers like poets: everyone can write, but not everyone becomes Shakespeare. Using AI to generate code isn't engineering — real engineering is seeing problems from your own perspective and solving them, with problem-solving as the enduring core skill.
He pushes back on "AI knows everything so you can stop studying": just as we still study despite books full of formulas, internalizing knowledge, practicing, and taking responsibility remain essential. Opportunities aren't disappearing, only transferring — like energy, competition will normalize.
More from AGI Musings
- Stop Defending AI Companies Like Football Teams — Just Switch to the Better Model — VraserX · 2026-10-18
- Anthropic nearly stops hiring junior staff as AI agents log 6x human hours — The Decoder · 2026-10-18
- David Manheim suspects stolen reasoning traces via exploits drive distillation — davidmanheim · 2026-10-18
- Elie Bakouch: classic SFT distillation should matter less without logits access — eliebakouch · 2026-10-18
- Professor gave human-written essay a zero as "AI-generated"; detector showed 99.9% human — Glad_Term_2071 · 2026-10-18
- US-side AI 'pause' wouldn't stop China catching up via distillation, researcher argues — davidmanheim · 2026-10-18