This is what I don't understand: everyone who thinks we're still relevant with the same job and salary expectations.
Everything just changed. Fundamentally.
If you don't adapt to these tools, you will be slower than your peers. Few businesses will tolerate that.
This is competitive cycling. Claude is a modern bike with steroids. You can stay on a penny farthing, but that's not advised.
You can write 10x the code - good code. You can review and edit it before committing it. Nothing changes from a code quality perspective. Only speed.
What remains to be seen is how many of us the market needs and how much the market will pay us.
I'm hoping demand and comp remain constant, but we'll see.
The one thing I will say is that we need ownership in these systems ASAP, or we'll become serfs to computing.
Everything just changed. Fundamentally.
If you don't adapt to these tools, you will be slower than your peers. Few businesses will tolerate that.
This is competitive cycling. Claude is a modern bike with steroids. You can stay on a penny farthing, but that's not advised.
You can write 10x the code - good code. You can review and edit it before committing it. Nothing changes from a code quality perspective. Only speed.
What remains to be seen is how many of us the market needs and how much the market will pay us.
I'm hoping demand and comp remain constant, but we'll see.
The one thing I will say is that we need ownership in these systems ASAP, or we'll become serfs to computing.