What AI Really Is — and What It Isn’t
At a Vancouver tech meetup, I watched a “turnkey AI” demo promise to generate a full chess.com clone from a short prompt—and fail completely. It looked real, but nothing worked. That moment made me question why so many still think software engineering is just coding. Like asking AI to write *The Lord of the Rings* from a paragraph, it misses the point. Software isn’t written—it’s *built* through design, iteration, and judgment. AI won’t replace engineers; it amplifies those who understand the fundamentals.