Having been in the industry for more than two decades, I’ve seen several “revolutions” come and go—the shift to web-native apps, the rise of cloud computing, and the transition to mobile-first development. Each of these changed what we built. However, the current AI boom is fundamentally different because it is changing how we build.
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI has moved beyond simple autocomplete. We are no longer looking at just a “better Google search”; we are looking at a collaborative partner that sits inside our IDE. For “old school” developers like myself, it takes time to fully embrace this shift and ride along with a totally different style of problem-solving…