If you can’t tell me what it does, then it doesn’t matter what the fix is, we have a much bigger problem. And that is, we don’t know what it does. Whether it’s you, AI, or Fred at the coffee shop, you need to know what it does. Base metric.
As a leader, if you are not asking yourself this question, you are not leading your team into the next era. Are they coding with it? Are they writing manuals? Are they letting it work for them? Is the team sharing skills? Are we all using different back-ends? You don’t have to have all the answers, but you need to be asking all the questions; someone else will, and they’ll be the ones people will…
AI will never name its classes or projects as cool as I do. I can prompt it, kick it, push it – but it will never be as cool as the ones that I give it. Never be steeped in so much meaning from what the team has been through that only they get the inside joke. Maybe one day. But not for a while, hopefully for a long time, because this and our cool…
I still write documentation and/or review it. There is still a need for it. Whether it’s done quickly by AI, reviewed by me, or written by me from scratch – we need to know how things work. When I would have problems studying, writing things out always helped me learn more and fill in gaps of what I had missed. That is the magic of a manual when you give it to someone – here…
Your best trait will always be your ability to understand the problem and articulate it to someone. This will always be your secret weapon. Not many have it, but those that do, are unstoppable.