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A developer's journey from counting CPU cycles on the Atari 2600 to the age of AI.
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As technology automates the tedious "counting" in our jobs, like cycle-counting for early programmers, it forces us to focus on the higher-level "deciding" – judging the quality and purpose of the work. The author argues that AI is now doing this for everyone, turning us all into editors who must answer the ultimate question: "Is this good, and how do you know?"