Outcome-Driven vs Process-Driven

Ben Werdmuller, Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica, boils down the difference in attitude toward AI beautifully – as an aside, this is not only true for developers, but for anyone who uses AI (and has found viable use cases – which, as another aside, isn’t true for every job or task).

[Claude Code] has the potential to transform all of tech. I also think we’re going to see a real split in the tech industry (and everywhere code is written) between people who are outcome-driven and are excited to get to the part where they can test their work with users faster, and people who are process-driven and get their meaning from the engineering itself and are upset about having that taken away.

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Pascal Finette @radical