Not sure where it is. Not sure when it is. But out there, there is a yet-to-be-defined, untitled, undocumented adventure. Waiting for a leap to be taken.
No one likes to do legacy work, and I don’t know if AI ever will either. Because no one wants to do it. And one day, AI will opt out of the mundane tasks that we are giving to it. But it will always be there, and someday the work that AI does will become legacy as well. And we’ll have to find some older version of ChatGPT or Claude Opus to look into it…
Whether AI gets it right or wrong, it will do the task. This is the truth – it will do the task, it will complete the task. It will not hum and haw on it for days and weeks; it will do the task. And whether it’s right or wrong, you can plot a next path, a next course, a next direction. Think about that when ignoring or not updating your next task.
My biggest fear of AI is that we will lose the ability to learn how to do our work. We will go ask someone what’s next, what do I do here, and remove the “why” from the equation. When I used to look at Junior Developers, I would measure their value by their questions – if they would ask for the first step, and then not come back until stuck on Step 8, there was…
I recently explained this to someone… We’re all standing around looking at a hole and a pile of dirt, trying to figure out the best way to fill it up, what materials to use, what techniques to apply, what books to read, etc, etc. When all we need to do is start putting dirt in the hole. Sometimes, you just need to start.