are you using ai to the fullest? #aitechnology #aitechjobs

8 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Taylor Desseyn argues that AI's real value isn't the tool itself but human judgment about when and how to use it. Like choosing between a screwdriver and power drill, developers need to know what's right for the job. Generated code can be wrong, so oversight matters.

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You knowing what's right and what's wrong is everything. Is AI the biggest boogie scary man as we're making it out to be? It's one of the biggest advances in technology that I've seen in my lifetime. I like to frame it, is it scary so much about what can I do that I couldn't do before? For a long time, we were using a screwdriver to like screw in, then we got power drills. But like to know when you use which is still valuable, still. We get more and more special tooling all the time, but to know what to do, when to do it, is the value add. The idea that I know when to use what That is the magic, and I know what's right and what's wrong. You as a developer, you knowing what's right and what's wrong is everything because the solutions that maybe generated code may produce may not be accurate, but you knowing what's right and what's wrong is still valuable.