Hot take: based on how fast models are accelerating and replacing large parts of the development process (my two cents in https://x.com/TomHarada1/status/1926193211678023953), I think more and more you want to work backwards from a world where AI does 90% of things. Script kiddies : prompt engineering :: current engineering :: future of engineering. Either path makes sense - going deep in research or development. One is a kernel and one is the rest of the egg.