alt Hacker NewsIt's a useful piece because it shows how considering AI a tool is nothing but lying to yourself.
If you shipped something understanding none of it, you did nothing. Claude did it. Writing 'code' is not just typing characters that compile, it's maintaining a system of ideas. If you don't know anything about those underlying ideas, what did you even do? How are you not trivially replaceable?
You can argue all day about these topics, but ultimately, the paychecks, the customers, the prestige, etc will be proportional to the non-AI value that you can offer to the world.
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mode_citizen • yesterday at 11:40 PM
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Shipping code is more than just writing the code. Just writing code is far from the be all and end all of making something, and there are already many books written on the subject already. Now, just throwing the result of a oneshot prompt over the wall isn't contributing much but we've long recognized that a useful piece of software is much more than just the effort of writing out the code.