> I'm less pessimistic than the author though. There is always room for people who know what they are talking about. Take a deep breath.
But what will their day to day look like? Meetings?
Previously, I'd have to work days undisturbed to get important stuff out of the door. There was effort involved to reach an elegant solution that fit business need.
Now I'm a meat bag pressing enter on a "recommended" option Claude already figured out was the best approach.
Fair, but the real question is what this person's manager thinks, as that tends to carry the day. And at the moment, there is an enormous gulf between what the managerial class believes LLMs can do and what people in the trenches know LLMs actually can and cannot do--not as a matter of current frontier capabilities, I might add, but more ontologically.
But what will their day to day look like? Meetings?
Previously, I'd have to work days undisturbed to get important stuff out of the door. There was effort involved to reach an elegant solution that fit business need.
Now I'm a meat bag pressing enter on a "recommended" option Claude already figured out was the best approach.
And how long can that last? We’re expensive meat bags…
If you are constantly thinking claudes approach is the best then perhaps you were not that good of an engineer to start with.