31st August 2024
I think that AI has killed, or is about to kill, pretty much every single modifier we want to put in front of the word “developer.”
“.NET developer”? Meaningless. Copilot, Cursor, etc can get anyone conversant enough with .NET to be productive in an afternoon … as long as you’ve done enough other programming that you know what to prompt.
Recent articles
- OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis - 4th September 2026
- Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026
- Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican - 1st September 2026