https://calyntro.com/blog/tags/criticalthinking/Recent content in CriticalThinking on Calyntro BlogHugoen-usMon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://calyntro.com/blog/posts/software-engineering-thinking-out-loud-with-ai/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://calyntro.com/blog/posts/software-engineering-thinking-out-loud-with-ai/<p>A colleague said something to me recently that I keep coming back to:</p> <p><em>&ldquo;Often, by the time you&rsquo;ve finished articulating a complex problem for the AI, you&rsquo;ve already solved it yourself.&rdquo;</em></p> <p>It sounds almost like a joke. You open a chat window, start typing out your problem in careful detail — and somewhere in the middle of the second paragraph, the answer appears. Not from the AI. From you.</p> <p>If you&rsquo;ve worked with LLMs seriously, you&rsquo;ve probably experienced this. And I think it points to something important about what is actually changing in our craft — something that goes beyond the usual conversation about automation and job displacement.</p>