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gregsadetskytoday at 9:51 AM1 replyview on HN

On social media, I saw the much more vulgar

“Learned engineering just to become the condom between Claude Code and prod”

And that (re)framing helped as well to think about the “what are we even (left) doing” as an industry


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plutokrastoday at 10:15 AM

With the recent wave of posts about Claude rewriting entire codebases from Zig/Electron to Rust/Swift, I can't help but question the prompter's actual confidence in the final result. Gaining a thorough understanding of the generated output still demands an enormous amount of effort. I suspect the reality is that most people just chain a few review agents together, and if they output "LGTM", the code gets committed and pushed.

I have been doing daily agentic coding myself since last November, but lately Im having concerns. We are on the verge of becoming Warhammer 40k Tech-Priests: chanting sacred prompts to appease the machine spirit, praying for a good result. The foundational knowledge is lost, meaning that even if we do look at the code, we won't understand it anyway.

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