Remembering phone numbers

People used to remember phone numbers.

We also knew how to start a wood fire.

How to ride a horse.

How to grow fruit, crops for ourselves.

Handwashed our clothes.

Those were everyday life skills. And they were important in their time. No wood fire, no cooked food. Don’t know how to ride a horse, you can’t get anywhere far. No crops, you go hungry.

But since phones, stoves, cars, supermarkets and washing machines were invented, we stopped learning those all-important life skills. You still can learn it if you want, but it’s more out of a hobby (camping), or in the rare emergency situation.

Nobody thinks you’re lesser if you don’t have those skills now.

Likewise, same with AI.

We used to had to understand our code.
We used to have to learn methods by heart.
We used to have to document every thing.

But now, anything you’re not sure, you can ask AI.

But they say, “If you outsource to AI then you’re not a real dev.”

Sure, I’m not then. Meanwhile, I have 10x the productivity, while you inch along with your perfect clean code.

AI won’t replace dev jobs. Devs with AI will simply replace devs without AI.