The Engineer Identity Crisis: AI Didn't Take Your Job, It Doubled ItEveryone says our job got easier. The people doing it are quietly falling apart. Here's the part nobody at the dinner table wants to hear: AI didn't make software engineering easy. It made it relentleJun 22 · 10 min readhackastak.hashnode.dev
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Weekly Notes Beat Daily Notes: The Sustainable Way to Never Forget AnythingI've tried every note-taking system. Daily journals. Morning pages. Bullet journals. Apps that promise to capture everything. They all have the same problem. They all make you feel bad when you skip aJun 10 · 9 min readhackastak.hashnode.dev
AI Coding Assistants Aren't Magicians: Why Pattern Matching Can't Replace Engineering JudgmentThe technology is transformative. The hype is dangerous. "Software engineering is dead." "AI will replace all coders by 2027." "You don't need to understand the code anymore." I've watched talented peMay 20 · 10 min readhackastak.hashnode.dev
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