AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects

Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by SanderNL on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:12AM (#35384121)

If that was all they were doing, sure.. but if they wrote language parsers, understood computing from the nand-gate up and worked their way up and down the stack over-and-over.. these types of guys will blow past all of us. The understanding you get from going up and down stacks is ridiculous.

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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by PartiallyTyped on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:11AM (#35384448)

Being a polymath is generally very advantageous.

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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by SanderNL on Friday March 31, 2023 @08:35AM (#35386147)

In this AI age I'm seeing it coming to fruition. Fullstacks have (IMO) more potential now than narrow specialists because they can now get away with high-level remarks and letting the AI fill in the details.

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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by ummonk on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:18PM (#35396384)

Yeah I’d say more specifically that general first principles understanding of different areas and the ability to think about systems / architecture / general logic is very useful.

Unlike traditional polymaths, detailed knowledge / familiarity with APIs and libraries is less needed.

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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by ummonk on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:55PM (#35391636)

I mean I've worked up and down most of the stack. The understanding is great. It still doesn't give me much of a competitive advantage over the average "full-stack" (laughable term given how narrow a part of the stack it encompasses) engineer when we're all working at FAANG / generic SaaS startup churning out agile code commits for generic CRUD web app.

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