AI is becoming an extraordinarily capable coder. But that doesn’t mean the programmer’s job disappears. In many ways, it moves upward.
This week’s Ask Good Questions pair came out of some recent PageSnip work where repeated small problems convinced me to stop pushing toward release and look at the architecture underneath them.
The Guide looks at the larger lesson: AI can be the better coder while the human still has to be responsible for the architecture, the product direction, and deciding when locally correct work is no longer adding up to a globally coherent system.
You can read about it here in Why Being the Programmer in Charge Still Matters.
https://askgoodquestions.dev/guides/why-being-the-programmer-in-charge-still-matters
The companion Field Note, Sometimes You Have to Stop the Train, tells the PageSnip story behind it, including why one big AI audit wasn’t enough and we instead gave multiple independent agents fresh copies of the repository and specific architectural questions to investigate.
https://askgoodquestions.dev/field-notes/sometimes-you-have-to-stop-the-train
Charles