Totally. I also think to many people "AI" is just one monolith. The annoying xfinity customer support bot is the same thing as claude code (not even to mention non-LLMs).
The people I see succeeding a lot with AI right now are the ones who are just technical enough to be dangerous but lack the rigidity of long term software engineers who are used to writing code by hand. In my customer support world those folks are generally awesome at debugging and QA tasks which are the most important parts of making your AI-coded thing not slop.
The people I see succeeding a lot with AI right now are the ones who are just technical enough to be dangerous but lack the rigidity of long term software engineers who are used to writing code by hand. In my customer support world those folks are generally awesome at debugging and QA tasks which are the most important parts of making your AI-coded thing not slop.