06 / A WORD ON AI
AI writes code.
It doesn’t know
what to build.
A stand mixer doesn’t make you a pastry chef. A jigsaw doesn’t make you a cabinet maker.
Tools are extraordinary. They give more speed and more reach to the person who already knows the craft. In the wrong hands, they simply make mistakes faster, and more convincingly.
Software is no different. AI writes code beautifully and has no way of knowing whether it’s the right code. It needs guidance: someone who understands your business, your users, your constraints and your edge cases. Someone who asks why before how, reads the output closely, makes the architecture choices, and is still answerable for them three years from now.
We use AI every day. It doesn’t make our decisions.
Yes, this site too. It was assembled with an AI-assisted tool, then read, corrected and finished by hand, which is exactly the arrangement we’re describing.