The Silent Shift: From Interrogators to Perfect AI Subjects

As software developers, we find ourselves in a curious situation at a certain point in our careers: we discover our inability to talk to our clients, let alone understand what they are saying. This happens whether we work as independent developers or as part of a development team. In the latter case, there are managers and leaders instead of clients. I’ll refer to both cases as “clients” in this article for simplicity. It’s curious because it doesn’t feel this way until we get it. I started my career in development twenty-six years ago.