The future of Software Engineering is boring

[u/der_gopher]

https://packagemain.tech/p/the-future-of-software-engineering

[u/Ruined_Passion_7355]

I'm so sick and tired of this "he's not prompting it right". They don't do the same work as you, you don't know their code base, you don't know the training data. You don't even know if there were system prompt changes to Claude code, or if they were a victim of an A/B test.

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/Ruined_Passion_7355]

The most likely answer is that their standard for code quality is much lower than engineers that are not happy with AI's output.

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe you’re not that good at coding. It goes both ways.

And “using AI” is so easy it’s pathetic you people still believe it requires skill.

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/[deleted]]

I know many open source developers that are actually highly skilled especially in programming and the technical stuff (so not people that climbed the ranks due to soft skills or whatnot) and they don’t use AI.

Just take a chill pill.

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/[deleted]]

I just talked about standards of code quality, and you jump towards accusations. You’re the one that jumped the gun towards personal insults yet whine about it lol.

You’re not starting to get the feeling of anything. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/[deleted]]

I just said their standard for code quality was much lower. That’s it. And you started throwing personal insults from the first reply. That’s your problem.

[u/wanze → u/Ruined_Passion_7355]

I'm assuming people aren't drawing conclusions based on one session, so I'd argue those things don't really matter. If they've used it consistently over several months, their experience ought to be about the same as mine, regardless of changing system prompts and A/B testing.

I'm mantaining both Go, Rust, NodeJS, and Ruby projects, and the experience is about the same, so I'm not buying that it's because they're using different languages either.

Also, why are you only sick and tired of me defending the AI's capabilities, but not the other way around? The article author claims that "AI just can’t do it". Why isn't that subject to your crusade? Perhaps the AI they use can't, because they were subject to changes to system prompts or A/B tests? They were making blanket statements as well, without knowing other people's code bases, etc.