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The Prompt is the New Code

High-level abstractions are moving from logic to natural language. Are you ready?

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In the 70s, we wrote assembly. In the 90s, C++. Today, we write prompts that generate the logic.

We are moving toward a world where the primary artifact of a software engineer is the specification. If you can describe a system perfectly, the implementation becomes a commodity produced by AI. The most valuable developers will be those who can define systems with surgical precision.

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