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Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

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421 points briankelly | 3 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hansmayer ◴[04 Apr 25 13:09 UTC] No.43581781[source]▶
Skimming through the article, it lacks clear structure and I am not sure what is the author attempting to show? Some new skills he had to use? Formulating requirements? That he can write extremely long prompts? The Conclusion section looks just like something a GenAI tool would produce. Or a first-year student in an essay.
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1. ManuelKiessling ◴[04 Apr 25 14:13 UTC] No.43582726[source]▶
I've taken this feedback to heart and tried to improve the structure a bit.

The main message I want to bring across is two-fold:

1. Senior developers are in a great position to make productive use of AI coding tools

2. I have (so far) identified three measures that make AI coding sessions much more successful

I hope the reworked version makes these more central and clear. I'm not a native English speaker, thus it's probably not possible for me to end up with an optimal version.

Still, I hope the new approach works a bit better for you — would love to receive another round of feedback.

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2. hansmayer ◴[04 Apr 25 15:16 UTC] No.43583649[source]▶
Hey, thanks for not being offended about an honest comment, not a lot folks could take it as maturely, as you did :) May I suggest to add a short summary, half page max, of the important results that you consider to have achieved at the beginning of the article? Kind of like how scientific articles prepend the content with an abstract. I think it would help a lot in building the expectations for reading the rest of it.
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3. ManuelKiessling ◴[07 Apr 25 21:43 UTC] No.43616268[source]▶
I've doubled down and completely rewrote the whole thing today :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573755