[dingnuts]

If Claude Code can do it what do we need you for?

[simonw]

Someone needs to know what a "database migration" is in order to ask Claude to build one.

I think a lot of people are massively underestimating how much knowledge and skill is needed in software engineering beyond typing code into a text editor.

[bgwalter]

You know that Linus was at one point "typing code into an editor" to review other people's patches because he found it easier to catch mistakes that way.

If your field of software engineering is so simple that you can survive on code snippets stolen from other people, great. Please do not generalize that.

[badsectoracula]

What simonw wrote but also someone needs to ensure the code is correct and take the blame once it fails :-P.

I think even if we ever reach actual AGI (in the far far future), we'll still want low level meatbags around to blame :-P

[turnsout]

Someone has to come up with the idea for app, have a vision for what it needs to be, and continually push it forward without going off-course.

[evilduck]

How do you know it did it correctly?

[turnsout]

Get this: I read the code and understand it