"Each answer leads to more questions. The accumulated decisions, edge cases, and interactions create genuine complexity that no tool or language can eliminate. Someone must think through these scenarios. That thinking is software development, regardless of whether it's expressed in COBOL, a CASE tool diagram, Visual Basic, or an AI prompt."

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https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html

"Even if I wanted to reject AI and go back to the days where the Thinker's needs were met by coding, the Builder in me would struggle with the inefficiency."

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https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard