1. Use AI Freedom to Master Fundamentals
Take the efficiency gains from AI as an invitation to free up space and go deeper in your craft, ensuring you always build your judgment using good old software fundamentals.
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0:28 · 9 October 2026
Use AI to Understand Your Codebase
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2. Independent Code-Base Reviews
Get up to speed by doing independent code-base reviews, going file by file and module by module to truly understand what is going on.
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Look, it's great that you can use AI and it's great that you can deliver. Take that as an invitation to free up space and go deeper in the craft. Because you need to get up to speed as soon as you can, understand what AI is doing, do independent code-base reviews where you're just going into the code base and you go file by file, module by module, you try to understand what is going on. You can use AI for that, it doesn't really matter, but do make sure that you're always building your judgment and your decision-making with good old software fundamental.