31–40 of 304 posts
Everything can be vibed will be vibed until everyone hits a wall, where no docs to form corpus nor instructions for prompts exist. There are problems that are yet to be named, but how can you name things when humans aren't the one to experience patterns of a thought process?
And naming things is one of the only two hard things in computer science
> Today, I use Claude Code for almost all non-trivial programming tasks and have spent $500+ on it just last December. Truthfully, I don't want to get advice from people who become addicted to AI, sorry. The money investment that person did, already leaves me with tons of questions.
If you sleep on this, these people are going to take your job.
I've been writing serious systems code for 15 years. Systems that handled billions of dollars of transaction volume a day and whose hourly outages cost billions of dollars. These are systems you have to design carefully. Active-active, beyond five nines reliable.
I'm telling you AI is extremely beneficial even in this segment of the market. The value prop is undeniable.
I'm easily getting twice my workload done with AI, and I'm not even leveraging the full extent of the tools. I've only just started to do more than fancy tab-autocomplete.
This is going to be a huge shift in our industry, and I would brace for impact.
Just to clarify that I'm not a jackass in real-life. In fact, I'm perfectly OK with all sorts of soft skills -- after all, my current position requires me to do so. But I just try to maintain a minimum level of soft skills to navigate the shoreline -- not interested to move up anyway.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate on this? What are some examples of skills you think are now essential, that prior have been taken for granted or obviated in some way?
Read further into the comment. Your $300k+ TC job is going away. The only way you'll make the same take home is if you provide more value. You can be a robotic IC, but you won't be any better than a beginner with Claude Code. You have to level up your communication and organizational value to stay at the top. Everyone has to wear the cloth of a senior engineer now to simply stay in place. If you can't write well, com…
Would you like to buy a bridge? Coded by Claude. One previous owner. An owner who used said bridge to go to church once a week, and vibe code in Starbucks afterwoods.
Why have a slow human CEO when machines are faster..
I don't think it has ever been the case that you could neglect soft skills. You will hear this over and over, in every area of every business: people become successful by adjusting their behaviour to what works for the business. Sometimes this is called being a slick politician, sometimes it is called avoiding getting bogged down in politics. But it's never been the case that a dev could just focus on technical thing…
While they may not have been very successful, they did have a place.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with your original post that the need for hard skills will persist, but I see it in the other direction: software engineers are going to have to get better at thinking in larger abstractions, not deeper understanding of the stack. Those who can only solve problems locally and repeat the patterns they've seen before rather than create new patterns from building blocks are the ones who are going to struggle.
"software engineers are going to have to get better at thinking in larger abstractions" ........Math was first on my list. I don't know how else to say that.
Yep, exactly. The failure to realize that you mean different things when talking about "larger abstractions" is exactly the kind of miscommunication that software people will need to navigate better in the future.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Effective communication, building trust, bringing people along with you" That's a David Brent powerpoint presentation.
Fair. I'll retire 'bringing people along with you' before it ends up on a motivational poster with a stock photo of a rowing team. Though you're right that there's no I in team. There is one in AI though, which probably tells us something.
*Goldman Sachs(sorry for invoking that name here) did a report on their high turnover, and the above framing was why many quit.
calculators doing a perfect job did not end accountants' jobs, it made it faster.