From 62d06b651c6f49d289fd06ddaa6d5d62cbdd712c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Curley Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 13:39:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Soften the tone at the end. --- src/pages/blog/be-the-outlier.mdx | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pages/blog/be-the-outlier.mdx b/src/pages/blog/be-the-outlier.mdx index b57a6df..f4861a7 100644 --- a/src/pages/blog/be-the-outlier.mdx +++ b/src/pages/blog/be-the-outlier.mdx @@ -77,10 +77,17 @@ Look, I'm not trying to sell you anything. I'm not founding a startup marketing itself as "Cursor for X" and collecting my riches. I've been doing live video for a decade now, I like it, and it's nice being an expert at something. -But, if you're not using tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, etc., in your day-to-day work, then you're dumb. -They're the new Google, the new Chat Overflow, etc. +Change is hard. +Case and point, I've been using vanilla vim for most of my career. +I only recently switched over to VSCode (vim bindings ofc) and was blown away by [rust-analyzer](https://rust-analyzer.github.io/). +Same thing happened when I started using Copilot. +Same thing happened when I started using Cursor. +Now I can barely code offline. + +I'll be blunt. +If you don't *want* to use AI tools in your day-to-day work, then you're dumb. +They're the new Google, the new Stack Overflow, etc. Your job as a software engineer is to copy-paste boring code from the internet no matter the source. - In many regards, nothing has changed. ## Conclusion