For most of my career, building software started with the same setup: keyboard, mouse, editor, terminal, browser, and an impressive number of tabs I was definitely going to look at later. The tools changed, but the relationship did not. Like most developers, I learned commands, memorized shortcuts, and adapted my thinking to the machine.
AI is changing that relationship and not because I can prompt my way to some workable code. It’s more because the system behind it can understand a repository, choose the right model, plan work, use tools, edit files, run commands, inspect failures, and keep going within boundaries the developer controls.
We’ve made it possible for a developer to describe an outcome, and GitHub Copilot can gather…
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