I have a colleague where I get more confused when they explain things to me. I have others I can understand just fine, because their explanations make logical and structural sense.
Reasonable questions about surrounding context and environment and common understanding aside, having to do questions to “fix” bad communication and explanations sucks.
I think the title and this 30s framing sucks, but the other/later points they make are broadly good guidelines. A mindset of trying to understand context and environment surrounding the question or change at hand. It’s certainly necessary to maintain and improve long running projects.
As a software developer I’ve always been a product engineer as well. AI tools did not change that for me.
Coding, reviewing, and ops is certainly not gone nor disappearing fast for me.
The decision to use a non-deterministic system is a decision you can attribute risk and risk assessment to.
The non-deterministic nature and risk is something we should consider and take into account just like any other attribute and property of algos, tools, systems, libraries, etc.