ME:::most of us who are softwware developers aren't surgeons. We're like those doctors 'before the scientific method became the way' when coding sadly. Not sure LLMs will make us all surgeons magically; Geoffrey Litt:: Code like a surgeon

Discovered: Nov 8, 2025 17:39 (UTC) ME:::most of us who are softwware developers aren’t surgeons. We’re like those doctors ‘before the scientific method became the way’ when coding sadly. Not sure LLMs will make us all surgeons magically; Geoffrey Litt:: Code like a surgeon

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A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!

Personally, I’m trying to code like a surgeon.

A surgeon isn’t a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at.