1 We have AI now

Is this book worth reading, now that we have LLMs that “will soon be writing most of the code”?

Let’s hear Rachel Thomas, working at the forefront of Deep Learning as part of a company called Fast.AI:

We all make mistakes and I am not trying to pick on the people listed above [whose predictions about AI turned out to be wrong]. However, it is important to ask if you want to stop investing in your own skills because of a speculative prediction made by an AI researcher or tech CEO. Consider the case where you don’t grow your software engineering or problem-solving skills, yet the forecasts of AI coding agents being able to handle ever expanding complexity don’t come to pass. Where does this leave you?

– Rachel Thomas, https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/