It’s been a couple of years since the AI hype really took off and if you’re a professional software engineer like me, you’ve probably already found places where it genuinely improves your workflow. At the same time, you’ve also likely realized that despite all the noise online about AI replacing engineers, that’s not really what’s happening. If you're deep in the IT business, you most likely already know there are still many other reasons why you can lose your job long before AI becomes a replacement for the actual work that you do.
But there’s one more thing I keep noticing more and more and every time I see it, I end up asking myself the same question:
Have we forgotten how to use non-AI tools?
A while ago, I was on a call sharing my VS Code screen when one of my snippet shortcuts expanded into a full block of code instantly. Someone immediately asked:
“Wow, that’s great - what AI is that? Can you share the skill or the prompt?”
