Mastodawn

The lead developer of Claude Code hasn’t handwritten code in 6 months and believes software engineering as a discipline will disappear. It will be replaced by builders as PMs, designers and managers can use AI to code.

He believes we’ll see 100x more builders than we saw software engineers.

I liken this to how smartphones mean we may have fewer professional photographers or videographers but millions more people making their living with photos and videos they’ve taken.
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Ryan Wells

@carnage4life Good analogy. 150 years ago, there were a handful of professional photographers getting paid very well for specialized work. Then we had a period of tons of pros getting paid ok for a wide variety of photos, alongside an increasing number of amateurs. Now we're back to a handful of pros getting paid very well for specialized work.

What I'm not sure about is where along that curve we are as software devs.

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Tuskie May 27

@ryanwells @carnage4life I don't actually think the analogy works that well, just insofar as software encompasses a much broader set of functionality than a photo.

I think in the interim, this will certainly take a lot of the low hanging fruit off the table (CRUD apps with a basic UI), but as Boris notes in that interview, even he's not seeing it necessarily replace, say, the software staff at NASA, and that's probably correct.

The actual interview is actually decently nuanced.