AI and Hard Skills - Unsolicited Advice for Junior Developers
Feb 22, 2026 • 3 min read
Don’t bother becoming an expert. Hand the heavy lifting to AI and learn to prompt engineer?
Software engineering building, shipping, and maintaining products.
Side quests and observations about life.
Don’t bother becoming an expert. Hand the heavy lifting to AI and learn to prompt engineer?
I took the advice of Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, and built a hello world agentic loop from scratch.
Writing a Ms. Pac-Man–style clone in Flutter / Flame with Opus 4.5, entirely through prompts—no manual code edits. My first 100% hand-off app.
The minimum team you need if you're serious about building something great: PM, designer, developer.