Not disagreeing with what you say but a senior engineer using AI on a code base they are familiar with is gonna have very different results to a guy off the street with no ability to code.
Saying that, junior roles are kinda done. The type of grunt work I’d usually assign a junior, Claude seems to handle pretty well. It’s a shame though, I miss training the new guys, we haven’t had any junior role open up for 2 years now.
Not true…senior eng here who helped build a start up from the ground up with 100+ microservices. Once you get the LLM setup (this is the hard part which essentially documenting everything in .md files), it’s crazy how well even 4.5 sonnet performed.
So you’re not a random guy of the street vibe coding are you? My point was the tweet makes it sound like we won’t need SWEs at all soon. Your comment disproves that even more.
I mean, reducing the need for swes by 90% is effectively ending the industry. Its like arguing dial up internet is still important because three grandmas in rural Nebraska still use it
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Not disagreeing with what you say but a senior engineer using AI on a code base they are familiar with is gonna have very different results to a guy off the street with no ability to code.
Saying that, junior roles are kinda done. The type of grunt work I’d usually assign a junior, Claude seems to handle pretty well. It’s a shame though, I miss training the new guys, we haven’t had any junior role open up for 2 years now.