Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready

Why is this flagged?

>It’s already doing 100% of the coding. Not assisting. Not helping. Just doing it. And we’re only halfway through the year.

Oh ya and you're betting your job on that it didnt write activate_skynet()? You still need to fully understand what it wrote.

>The idea of a “Python dev” or “React dev” is outdated. Going forward, I won’t be hiring for languages, I’ll hire devs who can solve problems, no matter the stack. The language barrier is completely gone.

"hiring" people havent gone on language in decades. Implying some bad things about OP.

>We’ve hit the point where asking “Which programming language should I learn?” is almost irrelevant. The real skill now is system design, architecture, DevOps, cloud — the stuff that separated juniors from seniors. That’s what’ll matter.

Python > *

>Design as a job? Hanging by a thread. Figma Make (still in beta!) is already doing brand identity, UI, and beautiful production-ready site, powered by Claude Sonnet/Opus. Honestly, I’m questioning why I’d need a designer in a year.

Yes, you should get rid of your designers. Other places will gladly hire them.

>A few months ago, $40/month for Cursor felt expensive. Now I’m paying $200/month for Claude Max and it feels dirt cheap. I’d happily pay $500 at its current capabilities. Opus 5 might just break the damn ceiling.

Pycharm pro for the win as well. Choice of tool is dynamic.

>Last week, I did something I’ve put off for 10 years. Built a full production-grade desktop app in 1 week. Fully reviewed. Clean code. Launched builds on Launchpad. UI/UX and performance? Better than most market leaders. ONE. WEEK.

fully reviewed by who? As in Ubuntu's launchpad? that has essentially no reviewing? A huge code dump or big bang pr? Isnt that what nobody wants?

You touch on the real boon, the gap between closed source for $ and open source free work just greatly decreased.

>Productivity has sky rocketed. People are doing things which before took months to do within a week. FUTURE GENERATION WILL HAVE HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY INGRAINED AS A EVOLUTIONARY TRAIT IN THEM.

Scotty: Let's prompt GPT-69 to fix this problem we have.

Nothing I can share externally at the moment, but I've been using it to almost speed-run through creating a docker compose stack of apps and deploying it on an cloud server. I've had Claude Code write 99% of it (not exaggerating), including app code (mostly in Python), configs, tests (unit, integration and playwright browser tests), deployment scripts and documentation. For this use-case, it's not yet good enough for working fully independently, and I need to steer and course-correct it every once in a while, but it feels a lot more like managing an eager but inexperienced person, rather than a "tool". And while I do make some manual changes every once in a while (particularly in the plan files I have it generate), in the vast majority of cases, I find it more convenient to tell it what to change and have it change it, until I'm happy.

More recently, as I've gained trust in the process, I've also started more and more asking it to manage "subagents" to do some of the lower-level work, and it's been a very valuable power multiplier too, allowing for additional parallelism, without growing the main agent's context.

The LLMs debates have been raging for a while now, and I think this is one of the most insightful comments I've read on this topic. I also think what you describe can also be applied to writing with LLMs. In short, your idea of a 3rd way forward, i.e., bespoke coding (or writing) is the only viable path forward, but using LLMs to accelerate that. This is actually sort of what I have been doing with my use of LLMs. The problem is you have to be really careful in not letting yourself take mental shortcuts as LLMs can sometime produce deceivingly dazzling results until you realize some of that is front of you is BS, however it did still produce something useful that you now have to clean up leading to productivity gains.

I didn't intend anything super nefarious there; I just think it's Influencer-style marketing that's going on.