I sent this message to everyone at Ardan this morning. Good Morning everyone. I want to share this and share some thoughts for all of you to consider for this year. We all need to come to recognize that if your job is to just write code, you will be out of a job in the next year or two. The AI coding agents have reached a level of being very good at writing the code you ask it to write. Notice I said "ask it to write." I need everyone to start focusing on their engineering skills: - Being able to identify what needs to be built and why. - Breaking that down into chunks of work and that be verified and tested. - Knowing how to ask for the code you need written and when you need it. - Maintaining a mental model of what is being built and coded. - Code reviews by yourself and the AI coding agents. This requires you to have a strong foundation in project structure and architecture. Everything I teach in my Software Design class. Without strong project structure, architecture, and design philosophy, these projects will be a mess. Really no different from what happens today without the AI Coding agent. You just get to the mess faster. So now is the time to strengthen these skills and leverage the videos I have. Leverage my existence here and reach out and ask questions. This year you MUST improve these engineering skills to stay employed. You must find an AI coding agent you like and start using it. You must invest in that tooling just like you invest in your laptop. Sourcegraph AMP I think is the best backend dev tooling out there. They have a free version with ads that don't get in your way. This is just 1 of many tools. Try and few and pick one. If you watch my live coding show (especially the last 2 shows) you can see how I use AMP effectively. Some of you can't use this tooling with your clients. But they do have internal models that some tools can use. Push to get access and start using it. Ask your clients what the rules are for using these tools and start using them. Please reach out if you need help getting started or have questions. -- Bill