Comment by gxs

> And then I started realizing: all the knowledge I have accumulated over the years: the trade-offs between implementations, how acquiring works, how to structure idempotency to prevent double-charges, everything, was becoming useless.

It’s not useless, at least not yet. And the fact that you recognize this puts you way ahead of the typical HN user constantly crying about how AI could never

What’s going to make you a good AI-augmented engineer is going to be treating AI like a good partner

Not like a genius, not like an idiot - these are extremes where all the memes on LinkedIn are generated

Like any partnership you will see it comes with bad ideas and good ideas - that it will challenge your own ideas and be sometimes wrong and sometimes right

Approaching it this way, I think my learnings only accelerated - the conversation is of much higher value because it’s a fast back and forth where I can take a moment to learn on those occasions where its ideas beat mine

You are feeling a little insecure, paranoid is not the word, and that’s a good thing

Tackle the problem for what it is: I have this sidekick now that can help me bang shit out in a fraction of the time it used to

Use the the brain that got you here to figure that out - don’t waste your time on these debating whether ai is good or not or listening to stories about how it’s stupid because one time it suggested something that wrong

You’re going to be fine, put AI to work for you

Ask me again in a few months but for now you’re fine