Dev's long post: AI doesn't replace expertise, it raises the bar
Beneficial-Cow-7408 · reddit · 2026-10-21
A veteran developer shares a long Reddit essay on AI: anyone can prompt their way to something resembling a finished product, and adoption is inevitable. But AI is only as good as the person driving it—give everyone the same model and results still vary wildly, because experienced people understand why systems work and where to start when things break.
He cites his own history with 3DS Max and Photoshop (edits that took hours now take minutes, sometimes outdone by GPT) and his current project—a canvas where AI edits are patched live without restarting the runtime—initially built by hand, now aggressively augmented with AI, with him constantly correcting it based on years of workflow experience.
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