[prohobo]

Seeing a lot of "ok boomer" reactions to posts like this, and honestly I think I kind of agree - but more accurately the author hasn't considered the current landscape properly.

Grady Booch (co-creator of UML) has this to say about AI: this is a shift of the abstraction of software engineering up a level. It's very similar to when we moved from programming in assembly to structured languages, which abstracted away the machine. Now we're abstracting away the code itself.

That means specs and architectural understanding are now the locus of work - which is exactly what Neil is claiming to be trying to preserve. I mean, yeah you can give that up to the AI as well but then you just get vibecoded garbage with huge security/functionality holes.