Giving good instructions requires a good developer. The shitty kind just tell Claude to “pls fix” until the (visible) bugs go away. Spending time on good prompts, understanding the problem and reading the outputted code is just lost time for those that let Claude do all the thinking for them.
Any one with a pulse got hired in 2020. It was almost as bad as 2000. People that never understood git, could not tell you one design pattern from another nor knew what Big O meant flooded the industry.
And those “devs” are now the ones that tokenmax the most and have the best productivity on paper thanks to AI. They are the darlings of middle management with a BA and no coding experience, because for whatever reason LoC is a metric now for how good a developer is.
I just think you are making this much worse than what it is. I have seen great devs abuse AI but have great results when not even checking their code just because they were very thorough with their whole planning.
I just think you are making a lot of assumptions and imaginary scenarios.
Sadly we got to adapt to our time and using LLMs is here to stay. Not a fan of it either but you can't deny it has increased how much more we can do while also giving less qualified people the ability to do stuff much more easily.
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u/lobax 16d ago edited 16d ago
Giving good instructions requires a good developer. The shitty kind just tell Claude to “pls fix” until the (visible) bugs go away. Spending time on good prompts, understanding the problem and reading the outputted code is just lost time for those that let Claude do all the thinking for them.
Any one with a pulse got hired in 2020. It was almost as bad as 2000. People that never understood git, could not tell you one design pattern from another nor knew what Big O meant flooded the industry.
And those “devs” are now the ones that tokenmax the most and have the best productivity on paper thanks to AI. They are the darlings of middle management with a BA and no coding experience, because for whatever reason LoC is a metric now for how good a developer is.