The most valuable skill in the AI space

The biggest thing with AI code that can make a massive difference: being able to read the code, not write it. But reading it might become a valuable skill in itself.

Here's why. You can produce thousands of lines of code with AI. But you'll need to verify it. If you can read the code and understand it, you'll be able to create more, faster, with AI's help.

This is also why I'm focusing more on reading code and understanding it than writing it myself.

I mean, Anthropic is using AI code right now, and they're saying that more than 90% of all their code is AI-generated.

So I have to guess that the people reviewing it can read over it like a senior dev, so they can approve it for production. But I could also be wrong. Maybe the skill is just to pump out code at scale :)

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