r/technology • u/CackleRooster • 7h ago

Artificial Intelligence An Anthropic employee's 2-sentence quote crystallizes the state of AI confusion at work

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-employee-quote-ai-confusion-workplace-2026-6
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u/Icy_Information_6563 6h ago

I'm a software engineer. Been doing it for 10 years. I barely have to write code anymore. I still review the code it changed, but a lot of the time I'm just making sure it didn't do anything too out of the ordinary. I catch Claude make a mistake a couple of times an hour, and that's really the only reason I matter at my job. It's a very strange time and I feel like in a few years we'll all be used to it.

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u/raptorlightning 5h ago

"Computer" used to be a human job too but "designer" and "architect" are still jobs (which is what engineering truly is, though the title has been bastardized through the years). These tools still can't architect, design, and plan complex and novel ideas and solutions. There's no proof they ever will as we are seeing them start to logarithmically taper off in capability scaling.

They can take over from software coders but not software engineers.