We recently got Claude Code and there is a very strong push to use it.
I recently did for the first time. Spent 15 minutes writing a long prompt to implement a ticket. A repeated pattern of code, 5 classes + config per topic that deeply interact with each other and it did the job perfectly.
It convinced me that the current code monkey jobs, which are >90%, >95%? of software engineering jobs, will disappear within 10 years.
We‘ll only need senior/staff/architect level code reviewers and prompt engineers.
When the last generation that manually wrote code dies out, all people will do is prompting.
Just like assembler became a niche, just like C became a niche, high level languages will become a niche.
If you still don‘t believe, you haven‘t tried the advanced tools that can modify a whole project, are too incompetent to properly prompt or indeed work in one of the rare, arcane frontier- state-of-the-art niches where AI can‘t help.
I recently did for the first time. Spent 15 minutes writing a long prompt to implement a ticket. A repeated pattern of code, 5 classes + config per topic that deeply interact with each other and it did the job perfectly.
It convinced me that the current code monkey jobs, which are >90%, >95%? of software engineering jobs, will disappear within 10 years.
We‘ll only need senior/staff/architect level code reviewers and prompt engineers.
When the last generation that manually wrote code dies out, all people will do is prompting.
Just like assembler became a niche, just like C became a niche, high level languages will become a niche.
If you still don‘t believe, you haven‘t tried the advanced tools that can modify a whole project, are too incompetent to properly prompt or indeed work in one of the rare, arcane frontier- state-of-the-art niches where AI can‘t help.