Sean Grindal on the Hidden Costs of AI Code
AI is making software faster to build than at any point in the field's history. A working feature that once took a week can now be prompted into existence in an afternoon. Most of the conversation around this new paradigm focuses on the newfound speed, but founder Sean Grindal is more interested in what the speed quietly takes away.
Grindal is the 23-year-old co-founder and head of product of Dream Vision Labs, the company behind Yapper, an AI content studio. He’s spent close to a decade writing software, and he believes prompting-driven development carries costs the industry rarely names: code that degrades, work that feels less like your own, and engineers who burn out without understanding why. His prescription isn’t to slow down but to redefine what an engineer's job actually is.
A Decade of Building Before AI
Grindal's view is shaped by an unusual amount of time in the...
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