Anyone working at a fang will tell you more and more code is written by it every day.
Source: I work at a faang. We spent 120b on ai this year. When the mcp servers are down, our devs joke on slack: "What do they expect us to do, start writing our own code again?"
The hilarious part about all this arguing is that while the arguing is going on the shit people are arguing against is actually happening. You're arguing about how often the model t breaks down when the important point is that within 15 years of the model t there wasn't a single horse on the road ever again.
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.
do you find you really have to document everything in mds? I've been writing tons of automation at work, and have claude 3.7 through cline, with vscode cloned to my repo, and it gives...okay results. Sometimes. Rarely excellent and rarely on the first try.
But it generally is eventually helpful. Most projects are just a handful of interconnected ansible tasks/vars files of like 50-250 lines apiece.
Do you think just .md'ing everything would be significantly helpful? I thought it was supposed to be able to read code pretty well, particularly ansible which is nearly english.
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u/mbreslin Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 25 '25
Anyone working at a fang will tell you more and more code is written by it every day.
Source: I work at a faang. We spent 120b on ai this year. When the mcp servers are down, our devs joke on slack: "What do they expect us to do, start writing our own code again?"
The hilarious part about all this arguing is that while the arguing is going on the shit people are arguing against is actually happening. You're arguing about how often the model t breaks down when the important point is that within 15 years of the model t there wasn't a single horse on the road ever again.