"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."

#ai #knowledgework #softwareengineering #replacement

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."

#ai #knowledgework #dukka

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

"I can't think of a single instance where an unruly ego solved anything I've worked on."

#knowledgework #ego #empathy #humility

https://matthogg.fyi/a-unified-theory-of-ego-empathy-and-humility-at-work/

"The brain learns best when it's surprised — when it detects a mismatch between an expectation and a result. If you rely on a calculator for 5 x 10 and a typo gives you '500,' your brain feels no error because it never made a prediction. You bypass a fundamental learning mechanism."

#knowledgework #learning

https://evakeiffenheim.medium.com/the-smartest-people-i-know-are-obsessed-with-a-skill-many-were-told-is-useless-b9416c6fb856

"If your environment has λ = 3 and you're trying to do θ = 90 work, you're going to have a bad time."

#knowledgework #attention

https://justoffbyone.com/posts/math-of-why-you-cant-focus-at-work/