I’ve been a programmer since 1995. My first big job was with a company that you’ve probably heard of, big fans of “Windows.” I worked on the kernel team doing hardware certs. Back in that day we had to patch the OS with driver updates to make sure it would work consistently on evolving hardware. And we had to call customers to tell them that they needed this update, and then we would mail them the disks (and later CD-ROMs). Oh what a fun memory. Anyway, the way you feel about AI right now is the way we felt about memory-managed languages in 1997. “That’s cheating!” we would cry. But now look, the world runs on JavaScript (nod to TypeScript). AI can never replace you. It just does part of your job for you. To be a software engineer, you have to be a careful, considerate person who views the world as a system and can gracefully walk that understanding into professional achievement through a very difficult niche skill. The world needs software engineers now more than ever. You still have 99% of your job to do. Hand-jamming syntax is the part that you don’t do anymore, but that was always the least intellectual part of it anyway. submitted by /u/Waste_Scarcity4685
Originally posted by u/Waste_Scarcity4685 on r/ClaudeCode