I hardly write code anymore myself and am a heavy user of Claude Code.

One of the things I’m struggling to come to terms with is the “don’t commit code that you don’t understand” thing.

This makes sense, however it’s a thorn in my side that if I’m honest I’ve not been able to come up with a compelling answer to yet.

I agree with the sentiment. But in practice it only works for folks who have become domain experts.

My pain point is this - it’s fine to only review if you have put in the work by writing lots of code over their careers.

But, what’s the game plan in 10 years if we’re all reviewing code?

I know you learn from reviewing, but there’s no doubt that humans learn from writing code, failing, and rewriting.

So…this leaves me in a weird place. Do we move passively into a future where we don’t truely deeply understand the code anymore because we don’t write it? Where we leave it up to the AI to handle the lower level details and we implicitly trust it so we can focus on delivering value further up the chain? What happens to developers in 10-20 years?

I don’t know but I’m not so convinced that we’re going to be able to review AI code so well when we’ve lost the skill to write it ourselves.