--- title: The best engineers just get shit done, sometimes with AI description: A short opinion piece arguing that the best engineers focus on shipping working software rather than obsessing over AI tool setups, productivity systems, or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-engineers-just-get-shit-done-sometimes-with-ai-bdvo4sb3s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The best engineers just get shit done, sometimes with AI | daily.dev og:description: A short opinion piece arguing that the best engineers focus on shipping working software rather than obsessing over AI tool setups, productivity systems, or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-engineers-just-get-shit-done-sometimes-with-ai-bdvo4sb3s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bdVo4sB3s.png og:image:alt: The best engineers just get shit done, sometimes with AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The best engineers just get shit done, sometimes with AI **[swizec.com](https://daily.dev/sources/swizec)** · 4 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A short opinion piece arguing that the best engineers focus on shipping working software rather than obsessing over AI tool setups, productivity systems, or elaborate orchestration frameworks. The core message is outcomes over outputs: what matters is what gets shipped to production and what users can do, not how sophisticated your tooling is. Uses analogies like Moneyball and Jeff Atwood's classic anti-TODO post to reinforce the point. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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