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Expertise vs Automation: the Choice that Makes You

by David Simmer | at Minnebar 19

Are AI coding tools stifling your learning and your ability to learn? Or is an aversion to AI coding today's version of "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket"?

The “paradox of automation” is this: when a formerly-human-operated system is automated for safety or convenience, any failure in that system can result in a worse outcome than before, because the humans who could avert the failure haven’t needed to understand the system, and haven't deeply internalized how to interpret what they're seeing happen.

If you’re a a software engineer in an era of amazing AI code tools, there’s no escaping this choice. What you decide may affect your current job and your future career prospects - will it be for better, or for worse?

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David Simmer

David Simmer is a designer and engineer with a couple decades of experience building for people who use the web. Homeschooled as a kid, and having shifted to working in tech as second career, he's had a weird and fortunate career journey.

Most recently, he's been a fullstack engineer at Netflix for 5+ years working on a wide variety of efforts: GraphQL Federation, unifying UX across internal tools, improving the experience of software migrations large and small, and cross-functional projects that make other engineers' days better.

After five years away in California, he now lives in St Paul with his wife Cleo and two rescue dogs named Chuck and Greta. Among other hobbies, he plays piano, mountain bikes, skis, and is learning to build cabinetry.

Website: https://simmer.ooo

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