I love these books, but in a poor job market AND "AI can do it anyway", it's not going to get much attention.

Despite "AI can it" is not even true, anyone with a brain will let AI fill in the details but let a "streetfighting computer scientist" make the architecture AND check the AI contributions. I would tell you to look into how the artcraft applications are made but I bet that's too much trouble too.

How about you just try it? Demonstrate getting claude, the best model, making a big application for you. See if it works. Have it make Excel or Call Of Duty, like seems popular. Try it! It won't work! It'll look a bit like it works but it won't, while using $10k or so in tokens, but critically, what happens when you find flaws.

It will fix bugs, but will systematically require more tokens to do so and bog down more than more. After a few more thousand dollars worth of tokens it starts recreating old bugs every time you ask it to fix something, then takes ages fixing those, and eventually it gets so bad it notices and breaks the process off before it even fixes what you asked.

Maybe that's why both Claude and OpenAI have started making ridiculous amounts of test (I'm all for test driven development, BUT according to me if your test file is more than twice the length of the source, something's gone wrong and you need a better strategy for testing)