The elephant in the room • Josh W. Comeau
2026-05-31
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Models are genuinely good at programming now, but what you get out depends almost entirely on what you bring: a strong developer like Matt Perry compounds existing domain knowledge into big gains, while a beginner stalls past the first prototype because the model has no holistic sense of architecture. The point isn't that AI replaces developers -- it is an instrument, and the same instrument sounds very different in a master's hands and an amateur's.
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