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“It's no longer enough to say, how do we use this tech to do what we have done previously? If you're looking at this and be like, this was my job, and now I'm going to do my job faster with this piece of stuff, it's not going to cut it, because anybody's going to be able to do that type of thing.”

Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · October 2026

“It's no longer enough to say, how do we use this tech to do what we have done previously? If you're looking at this and be like, this was my job, and now I'm going to do my job faster with this piece of stuff, it's not going to cut it, because anybody's going to be able to do that type of thing.” — Wes Bos, Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Context

A listener without a computer science background asked how to stay employable as AI takes over coding. Wes Bos's advice was to apply the technology to new problems and industries, using AI-generated sewing patterns as his example.

Transcript

Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) Around 08:34 into the episode
Wes Bos

…out 3D, checking them against, you know, it's quite a bit. So that's an interesting thing to talk about in terms of the compute is it's not just about, yeah, being able to run your own models locally, but it's about being able to like run your verification as fast as possible as well. Yeah,

Scott Tolinski

that's going to be crazy.

Wes Bos

Next question from not your traditional CS developer in this AI-fueled era for developers, what do you suggest people do to develop technical expertise to be better to embrace AI as a tool and become less expendable in this job market, especially for developers who do not have a traditional computer science background, no algorithm classes or theory classes taken? Yes. This is the question that we've probably had this question a hundred times over the last year or so. People are like, what, what do I focus on right now? Right. Like, do I, do I double down and learn a lot about like algorithms in GetAt? And the mathematicians might tell you no, because the AI is getting really good at that as well. So I think it's really important to understand that it's no longer enough to say, how do we use this tech to do what we have done previously? If you're looking at this and be like, this was my job. And now I'm going to do my job faster with this piece of stuff. It's not going to cut it because anybody's going to be able to do that type of thing. I think if you are looking at this…

Scott Tolinski

Yeah.

Wes Bos

Well worth your time, it totally blew up. Like something like five, six thousand people went and bought a photo frame and have been doing stuff like this. And it was really interesting to me to see how different people approach this type of thing. You know, like a lot, some people very quickly…

Scott Tolinski

some people? Yeah. Exactly.

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