The Next Dev Skill Isn't Writing Code—It's Breeding It
dfinke · x · 2026-11-04
Author dfinke offers a metaphor: AI agents now pull out high-performing snippets, prompts and subroutines and share them across systems—effectively gene transfer. The developer's new role becomes the genetic engineer and quality control: instead of writing from scratch, you select, recombine and vet this flowing code gene pool.
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