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A sharpened stone and an agentic coding AI both offer utility. The sharpened stone assists in mobbing a prehistoric mastodon for dinner. The agentic AI helps reach a working solution with less manual coding. Both are tools, and neither is worth much unless applied properly. The stone doesn’t put dinner on the table unless you catch that mammoth. The AI doesn’t bring in a paycheck unless you research, develop, and market a solution. A tool doesn’t remove an existing problem but does remove barriers towards the solution. The stone is an easier way to bring down a large mammal than your fist would be. Agentic AIs can code faster than a human. In both cases human knowledge and skill is still required.<\/p>\n

Prehistory, today, and tomorrow, the requirements of problem solving are unchanged and, most likely, unchangeable. This is the reality of a world constrained by resources.<\/p>\n

To reach a goal through use of a tool the path you strike still needs to be sensible, and the tool comprehensible.<\/p>\n

With AI, we gain speed — lower barrier of entry — possibly increase efficiency, if the angle of entry is correct. What we don’t get is the solution to every problem.<\/p>\n

Starting at the lowest level of entry — if you don’t know how to prompt well enough to vibe code, you don’t get off the ground.
\n…if you can vibe code, but you’re building something complex, and the code doesn’t work the way you want, you still don’t get off the ground
\n…when you finally get the code to work, but it’s buggy and the UI crashes, it’s hard to get adoption, and you lose leads
\n…if the code works, but it has a ticking time bomb and you don’t even know it, you make money until you’re in trouble. Worthwhile? It depends.
\n…if the code works, and works well, and either you or the AI are good enough that it’s near perfection, you’re back to status quo. This is the standard expectation for any product or platform. How much time and effort did you save? Some, probably. It depends on you, on the AI, on the vertical.<\/p>\n

New tool, same necessities, of which one of the greatest is using your resources effectively.<\/p>\n

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