☕🤖 Trisha Gee on AI, SKILL ATROPHY & the SOFTWARE JOB MARKET
☕🤖 Trisha Gee on AI, SKILL ATROPHY & the SOFTWARE JOB MARKET
AI can write more code. But can we still engineer better software?
🔸 TLDR
On Rock the JVM, Trisha Gee explores AI, Stack Overflow, burnout, mentoring, junior careers, and the skills we must keep alive.
🔸 🔟 VERBATIMS
1️⃣ “Stack Overflow itself was part of a kind of revolution in how developers learned.”
It democratized knowledge. LLMs may replace the interface, not the need for expertise. #StackOverflow
2️⃣“we still need good quality answers, content, knowledge, materials in order to feed the machines with something helpful.”
AI still depends on strong human knowledge upstream. #AI
3️⃣ “you don't always have to understand the bits and bites in order to produce a product that is useful for customers, useful for the business.”
Fundamentals matter—but business value matters too. #SoftwareEngineering
4️⃣ “a lot of the AI stories are all around writing code, which was never the bottleneck in the first place”
Faster coding does not fix weak requirements, testing, delivery, or feedback loops. #Productivity
5️⃣ “I think we should not fall into the temptation of let's just do more stuff cuz we can do more stuff.”
AI speed without outcome thinking can create more code, and more debt. #TechDebt
6️⃣ “slow down. It's just like if your engineers are burning out, it's not working.”
More output is not success if the human system collapses. #Burnout
7️⃣ “A good junior asks a lot of questions.”
AI does not replace mentoring or experienced judgment. #Mentoring
8️⃣ “it's not about learning more APIs or learning more languages. It never was.”
Seniority is about trade-offs, judgment, and consequences. #Career
9️⃣ “sometimes we just need to force ourselves to sit and read the code”
Some skills survive only if we deliberately keep exercising them. #CodingSkills
🔟 “My best piece of advice is don't panic.”
Tools change fast. Strong engineering fundamentals still compound. #Developers
🔸 TAKEAWAYS
▪️ AI accelerates coding—not necessarily engineering.
▪️ Judgment, mentoring, testing and feedback loops matter more.
▪️ Use AI, but deliberately keep your own skills alive.
▪️ Juniors still need humans who explain the “why.”
#Java #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperProductivity #Career #Programming #RockTheJVM #TrishaGee
📺 source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKrOSpInUtk
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