Bottle Your Judgment and Make it Outlive You

Which means the two of them are basically running a version of Moneyball, in real life, from opposite dugouts. One’s the old scout who swears he can see it in a kid and can’t fully say how. The other’s building the model that writes down what the scouts could never articulate.

The movie is more honest about how this works than most AI takes are. While the model won that argument, it never made the scouts worthless. It made the good ones more valuable and the vague ones expendable.

Developers who know how to build complex systems with good bones and good architecture aren't going to be replaced by AI. Companies that make this mistake will later learn to regret it. Eventually the bill of vibe coding without the underlying knowledge will come due.

Looking at what Dan says about handling judgement and the decisions taken can be helpful as an exercise to look back on to review your work.

The act of writing it down does more than just move your judgment. In the end, it actually sharpens it. Forced to explain why you make a decision, you find the rules you didn’t know you followed, and the ones you thought you followed but never really did.

But AI and LLMs still can't replace everything that goes into developing the knowledge you have that went into the making the decision.

A model trained on everything you’ve written knows what you did. It does not know the feel you developed for when to break your own rules. You never wrote that down, because you can’t. That part still transfers the old way, the reps, the proximity, the wax-on.

The final comment is 👨🏼‍🍳👌🏻.

A cover band can learn your setlist note for note. It still can’t tell you which song to play when the room goes quiet, and neither can anyone you didn’t bother to teach.