Claire Vo: prediction

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…Yeah, it was a huge reason to switch and try to adopt a lot of these tools, both. And I think it's one reason that I think many people haven't really, it hasn't clicked, I guess, the AI stuff. They're like, oh, I tried it, it didn't really work. It's not that good. It makes a lot of mistakes. It's, you know, basically it's faster for me to do it than to have AI do it. And I find that that's like a lot of it is just like AI is, yeah. good at certain things. It's really good at front-end. It's really good at React. It's really good at JL Winchatzi and stuff. So if you're not using those sorts of tools, you're not going to get the value. Like trying to ship something like this with like Rails in the back end and like Hotwire or whatnot in the front end, like it just doesn't exist. Like you would have to spend all your time just getting this to work, you know, some jQuery calendar thing, you think, you know, that's how Gumroad was for a long time. One of the things I wonder is if, you know, engineering leaders will decide on particular transitions or migrations to make just to power this stuff so that their teams can move a little bit faster because they're just seeing themselves be left so far behind compared to those who are maybe using some of these libraries and technologies natively. I actually think that the majority of human engineering will be removing tech debt such that AI engineers can actually shift features. Basically, designers will be shifting features because if you think about it, what are they doing? They are thinking about what the features should do. And then engineers are just basically setting up the groundwork, the framework, the defaults, the standards, the linting, the CI pipeline, the infrastructure, the dev setup, such that designers actually are more and more capable over time of like, basically taking their idea. Like, if you were a designer, you you know, you would like just design this part, you know, you design this, but you wouldn't design like all the little interactions in here, right? Like, you would just design like, like, that because it would just take too, too long or you wouldn't even consider it because you didn't play, you know, you didn't, for example, like often you'll have a designer and they'd like, didn't consider a mobile.…

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