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Chisomo Chiweza
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Passionate programmer trying to engineer software in the warm heart of Africa (Malawi).
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Absolutely.
Snippet from article musing over the future of software engineering.
August 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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If you want to use AI products to build better software for customers - that is good. But this concerted effort to de-skill really good programmers and mask that as 'inevitable for progress' is predictably - ridiculous.

blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-...
An image showing the following snippet from the main article: I have worked with two junior developers recently who are very good precisely because they are trying to understand what they are doing rather than just producing code. They use AI to explore things they do not understand, ask questions to clarify their reasoning and double-check assumptions. They use the tools to increase their understanding. I have also worked with senior developers who basically gave up and stopped trying to understand the code. They became much worse engineers as a result. At this point I would much rather work with those two juniors. The problem is not AI. The problem is using AI as a substitute for understanding instead of a tool for building it. Related to this, some people argued that we should not teach skills that AI can do better. The fact that a machine can do something better than humans does not automatically make learning it pointless. We still teach arithmetic and algebra despite computers being vastly better at calculation. We teach spelling, grammar and essay writing. We even teach history and geography while everyone permanently has a device in their pocket that can look up almost any fact in seconds. How else would you be developing the mental models required to understand, question and verify anything?
August 20, 2026 at 8:31 AM