I get it - goals often feel like extra homework. But I’ve found they don’t have to be. Done right, they can keep you focused, accelerate your learning, and guide better decisions.
I was in the room at this year’s Pragmatic Summit when Laura Tacho dropped the numbers: nearly all developers use AI coding assistants, over a quarter of production code is AI-written - and yet productivity gains haven’t budged past 10%.
That number is expected to rise to 65% within two years. Yet 96% of developers, according to this Sonar research, say they don’t fully trust AI-generated code.
With AI building features, teams must shift from doing tasks to orchestrating them - PMs guide intent, engineers oversee systems, designers review output live, and QA builds self-healing processes.
Building with LLMs is nothing like traditional software. If we want something that actually works in production, we have to test it, monitor it, and keep iterating on real customer data.