alt Hacker NewsThe good times are yet to come though: when all the slop held together by spaghetti, duct tape, chewing gum and hairballs starts falling apart and someone needs to fix it. If the slop bubble doesn't start popping soon, in 10 years a handful of people will end up being better paid than COBOL developers are now cause they'd be the only one that know what a compiler is. Personally I'm not too enthusiastic about the prospect so if I'm lucky, I'll be enjoying early retirement and watching all hell break loose from a camper van near the sea somewhere.
Have you used AI lately? Yes, this was the case a year ago but I've been using Claude daily for the past month and the quality is on par with what a senior engineer would be producing - often times better as it's more thorough and can think through all logical edge cases much more reliably. I do review all the code it writes. There are some suggestions I have but I'd say overall, 99% of it is solid.