Matthew Hansen on the Hard Parts of Software Development

In AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder, Matthew shares a lesson that has taken me more than 20 years to learn:

Writing code is the easy part of the job. It always has been. The hard part is investigation, understanding context, validating assumptions, and knowing why a particular approach is the right one for this situation.

The hardest part of software development, however, is and always has been, people. Politics, opinions, emotions. You can't find an AI for that, although it can help.