alt Hacker News> Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain?
Are they maintaining it if all they do is type prompts into Claude?
> Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain?
Are they maintaining it if all they do is type prompts into Claude?
Yes, they are.
They may be doing a poor job of it - time will tell.
But, at present, they're still the ones merging PRs and deploying changes to production.