> I was talking to a junior developer and they were telling me how Claude is so much smarter than them and they feel inferior.

Every time I talk to a wizard I feel like they're so much smarter than me and it makes me feel inferior.

So I take that feeling and use it to drive me to become a wizard like them. I've generally found that wizards are very happy to take on apprentices.

I'm not trying to call Claude a wizard (I have similar feelings to you), but more that I don't understand that junior's take. We all feel dumb. All but time. Even the wizards! But it's that feeling that drives you to better yourself and it's what turns you into a wizard.

Honestly so much of what I hear from the "AI does all my coding" crowd just sounds very junior. It's just the same like how a year or two ago they were saying "it does the repetitive stuff". Isn't that what functions, libraries, functors, templates, and other abstractions are for? It feels like we're back to that laughable productivity metric of lines of code or number of commits. I don't know why we love our cargo cults. It seems people are putting so much effort into their cargo cults that they could have invented a real airplane by now.