“The person who communicates the best will be the most valuable programmer in the future. The new scarce skill is writing specifications that fully capture your intent and values,” Sean Grove from OpenAI said recently at the AI Engineer conference.
Specifications, not prompts or code, Grove says, are becoming the fundamental unit of programming, and writing specs is the new superpower.
As AI makes it easier than ever to generate code, two things have become clear. The first is that generating more code with AI does not remove complexity…
