Comment by keeda

I agree, I'd say we're talking about the same thing, just in different terms. When I said CRUD apps, it was a crude stand-in for what you call the "closing" work. Over-simplifying, but it's unglamorous, not too complicated, somewhat mechanical, mostly a translation into working code from high-level designs that come down from the "innovators."

But I am concerned precisely because AI is usurping that closing work, which accounts for the bulk of the team. Realistically the innovators will be the only people required. But the innovators are able to do the hard stuff by learning through a lot of hands-on experience and painful lessons, which they typically get by spending a lot of time in the trenches as closers.

And we're only talking about coding here, but this pattern repeats ALL over knowledge work: product, legal, consultancy, finance, accounting, adminstration...

So now the problem is two-fold: how do we get the closers to upskill to innovators a) without the hands-on experience b) faster than AI can replace them?

I can see where Dario is coming from.