Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

We recently got Claude Code and there is a very strong push to use it.

I recently did for the first time. Spent 15 minutes writing a long prompt to implement a ticket. A repeated pattern of code, 5 classes + config per topic that deeply interact with each other and it did the job perfectly.

It convinced me that the current code monkey jobs, which are >90%, >95%? of software engineering jobs, will disappear within 10 years.

We‘ll only need senior/staff/architect level code reviewers and prompt engineers.

When the last generation that manually wrote code dies out, all people will do is prompting.

Just like assembler became a niche, just like C became a niche, high level languages will become a niche.

If you still don‘t believe, you haven‘t tried the advanced tools that can modify a whole project, are too incompetent to properly prompt or indeed work in one of the rare, arcane frontier- state-of-the-art niches where AI can‘t help.

Forced, no. The consulting company that employs me is talking about AI constantly and our internal viva engage is full och people talking about it. None of them are programmers.

The client I work at, through them, has made some tools available but no-one is using them for anything.

It's considered a minimum skill requirement to know how and when to use AI and to actually then use it, yes. I haven't seen managers enforce it but the CEO already said so. In practice there are still people who are resistant of course.

Our company is positioned right at the edge of the wave for this though so it's understandable.

I work at a small web company (.net based, Netherlands) and we're just experimenting with it. We have a paid copilot subscription, but nothing about it is mandatory in any way. But this place is conservative in the sense that self hosting is the norm and cloud services like Azure or even github (we self host Gitea) are not, other than MS 365 for Teams and e-mail.