Shedding Expertise: What Matters?

I’m living this, questioning what I thought was my expertise. AI models provide internet-scale possibilities, and (fortunately still!) motivated humans can crystallize one thread with their own preference and taste. Doing so got much easier, so they can push much farther to the edge.

The Fate of Expertise in the Age of AI by Massimo Scapini on Without Why.

“The new expert: → Orchestrates capabilities they cannot fully explain → Maintains responsibility for work they didn’t personally execute → Judges excellence without tracing every step of its creation.”

지금까지 나는 개발을 잘 못한다고 생각하고 있었고, 이를 극복하기 위해 코딩테스트를 통과해서 큰 회사의 엔지니어가 한번 되어봐야 하나라고 생각하고 있었다. 그런데 요즘 코딩 AI를 써 보면서 그런 생각이 다 사라졌다. 내가 하고 싶은 걸 하는데 내 코딩 실력은 더 이상 문제가 아니다. 이건 모두에게 공평하다.

Reset.

I’ve started from scratch many times and reached the edge many times. This time, with agentic AI and robots, won’t be different. Again, I’ll make awesome things.