In all seriousness, no product pitch here, just a serious question. I have been slinging code for 28 years, have patents, traveled the world for this career. Dev tools are kind of like religion imho, but is it collapsing to a prompt and my agent loop is “betta than yours”, song in there somewhere. Are dev tools truly dead… maybe they were never a thing to sell in the first place. A terminal is a terminal hell I was a vi guy for years before I switched to eclipse. I have written code in just about every language you can imagine, for some of the biggest companies on the planet. I bet many of you have touched the software I built and have no idea. But who give a crap about that? No-one cares, it is just a job… and I have truly truly loved it. But what do I know, are we really letting 3 dudes decide the fate of the software world? Tokens will become the next economy, if it isn’t already. However, I feel there is going to be a correction in the value of them. Like cell phone minutes and your old data plan. Also, changed the entire world btw. LLMs have a place they can out perform humans in a few ways but they are terrible absolutely terrible at deterministic outcomes. Until that changes the my have a shelf life and reach problem. The context window is a major problem for real coding. Remembering my ui standards is impossible after a month of coding without the LLM rating a portion of every conte t window relearning the overall standard which in turn limits the sliding context. Opus 4.7 is huge but massively over fit imho. There are real limits here. There is a reason asking any premiere LLM to give you a random number between 1 and 25 always return 17. if everything we build costs token and so you have to charge more tokens and the value is relegated to slop… then why try? It is pretty simple either the value is there and people use it or it isn’t and they don’t. But maybe my old ass is just, well, old and I have finally hit that point where I sound like my father… BUT then again maybe I am not crazy and this is how I actually see it an exercise is the best marketing campaign of the last 15 years aka to take wanna be developers and make them think they can write code, tell them all the same ideas, game the agent loop, and make billions off of a token economy they created… submitted by /u/Successful-Seesaw525
Originally posted by u/Successful-Seesaw525 on r/ClaudeCode