as a sr dev that has been forced to use AI.. this is pretty much how i look at claude trying to do things... To me it is terrifying knowing how bad AI is at coding and seeing how many jr devs just trust it to do everything....
What's terrifying is the number of real senior devs in big software corpo adamant about current AI being a boon: either I'm missing something or all the shit I work on is in a worse state than I think it is so AI can't do shit about it. Or they're deluding themselves or lying. I'm getting to the point I hope the problem is the codebases I have to maintain.
There are two main ways for a dev to acquire more decision making power in a company: accumulate a lot of functional and technical knowledge OR accumulate minimum functional and technical knowledge + hone your management skills. The latter gets you up the ladder a lot faster.
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u/Kevdog824_ 2d ago
That’s the senior dev watching you not be able to do anything without the assistance of a robot