Apr 15 • General discussion
What Still Remains in the Age of AI: A Message to Papafam
A lot has changed since AI and agents entered the scene.
They’ve changed the way software engineers and developers work, build, learn, and solve problems.
But one thing is important to understand:
being unaware of these changes can cost you more than you realize.
The real threat is not AI itself.
The real threat is
the person who knows how to use AI properly.
That is why has the vision to teach these things early. He understands that those who learn how to work with AI will have a huge advantage.
As Cal Newport would say:
> The person controlling the intelligence machine will become more valuable.
After observing thought process, I noticed patterns worth sharing with the Papafam community. Because even as AI becomes smarter, some timeless skills still remain valuable.
Scott Young introduced the DROP framework for mastery:
See → Do → Feedback
And has consistently invested his time, energy, resources, and passion showing us exactly how to do that.
As Donald Knuth once said in Coders at Work:
> If someone understands how you created something, they can create their own version too.
That is real leadership.
That is real mentorship.
doesn’t hold back. He teaches openly, shares deeply, and helps others grow.
That’s why we are all here.
And that’s why we appreciate you, Sonny.
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So What Still Remains in the AI Era?
- 1. Googling Still Matters
If you watch Sonny build, you’ll notice he still searches a lot. Especially the last pizza build
This skill existed before AI, and it is here to stay.
Knowing
what to search,
how to search, and
how to find answers fast is still powerful. AI can help, but search skills still matter.
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- 2. Reading Code Still Matters
Even with powerful agents writing code, Sonny still reads through the output and edits parts himself.
A recent example was when he adjusted parts of the code involving Clerk roles during pizza build .
That tells us something important:
AI can generate code.
But developers still need to understand code.
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- 3. Staying Updated Still Matters
Technology moves fast. AI moves even faster.
We’ve seen Sonny jump into newly released features immediately — even unstable ones. — to test, learn, and understand them early.
That mindset matters.
Stay updated on:
* What AI agents can now do
* What new frameworks can do
* What languages are improving
* What tools are becoming obsolete
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- 4. Taste Still Matters
This one is underrated.
Good taste means having an eye for:
* Clean design
* Structure
* Simplicity
* Best practices
* User experience
* Good judgment
AI can generate options.
But taste chooses the best one.
And taste has always mattered.
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- 5. Learning While Building Still Matters
Before AI, many of us learned by building projects.
That has not changed.
The best learning still happens inside real work:
Build. Break. Fix. Improve. Repeat.
AI may accelerate the journey, but building is still the classroom.
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Final Thought
AI can help you do almost everything.
But if you don’t have taste, style, structure, judgment, and your own pattern of doing things…
Can you truly say you built it?
Or did AI build it for you?
The future belongs to people who can combine both:
Human judgment + AI execution
That is the edge.
Thank you, Sonny.
Thank you, Papafam.
I may be wrong but the goal still remain questioning what you have accepted as the truth
Keep winning
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What Still Remains in the Age of AI: A Message to Papafam
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