Sonnet + Tailwind is something of a force multiplier though -- backend engineers now have a fast/reliable way of making frontend changes that are understandable and without relying on someone else -- you can even give 4o a whiteboard drawing of a layout and get the tailwind back in seconds
On the wider points, I do think it is reducing time coders are thinking about strategic situation as they're too busy advancing smaller tactical areas which AI is great at assisting -- and agree there is a recency issue looming, once these models have heavy weightings baked in, how does new knowledge get to the front quickly -- where is that new knowledge now people don't use Stackoverflow?
Maybe Grok becomes important purely because it has access to developers and researchers talking in realtime even if they are not posting code there
I worry the speed that this is happening results in younger developers not spending weeks or months thinking about something -- so they get some kind of code ADHD and never develop the skills to take on the big picture stuff later which could be quite a way off AI taking on
On the wider points, I do think it is reducing time coders are thinking about strategic situation as they're too busy advancing smaller tactical areas which AI is great at assisting -- and agree there is a recency issue looming, once these models have heavy weightings baked in, how does new knowledge get to the front quickly -- where is that new knowledge now people don't use Stackoverflow?
Maybe Grok becomes important purely because it has access to developers and researchers talking in realtime even if they are not posting code there
I worry the speed that this is happening results in younger developers not spending weeks or months thinking about something -- so they get some kind of code ADHD and never develop the skills to take on the big picture stuff later which could be quite a way off AI taking on