> the big wins come from specialists learning to code as the vanguard, then a few engineers taking over for production
The best places to work are ones with high mutual respect between the 'R' and 'D' of R&D. When either camp dismisses the value of the other and everyone stops giving a little to make the handoff easier it just makes everyone miserable.
Yeah what goes unspoken in all these AI discussions is that there's a culture of collaboration that just evaporates when everyone is pushing their own ideas.
There's very little mutual discussion, brainstorming, anything. The slowness inherit in building software before made those discussions almost necessary, now they're post-hoc criticisms (PR "review") rather than fulfilling collaborations.
It's fine from a technical sense, but I do wonder what it does for culture.
The best places to work are ones with high mutual respect between the 'R' and 'D' of R&D. When either camp dismisses the value of the other and everyone stops giving a little to make the handoff easier it just makes everyone miserable.