[rurp]

It sounds like you're building a lot of prototypes or small projects, which yes LLMs can be amazingly helpful at. But that is very much not what many/most professional engineers spend their time on, and generalizing from that former case often doesn't hold up in my experience.

[mazswojejzony]

We use both Claude and Codex on a fairly large ~10-years old Java project (~1900 Java files, 180K lines of code). Both tools are able to implement changes across several files, refactor the code, add unit tests for the modified areas.

Sometime the result is not great, sometimes it requires manual updates, sometimes it just goes into a wrong direction and we just discard the proposal. The good thing is you can initiate such a large change, go get a coffee, and when you're back you can take a look at the changes.

Anyway, overall those tools are pretty useful already.

[Tripping5292]

It sounds like you're assuming I'm not a professional engineer and I only work on prototypes.

[Izkata]

They're basing it on what you described in your previous comment. I got the same impression.

[Tripping5292]

Finishing projects makes me sound unprofessional?

I've been at it multiple decades. TC $1M+. Forever beginner I guess.

[Izkata]

"sheer number" combined with "completed" sounds more like lots of small projects (likely hobbyist or prototypes) than it does anything large/complicated/ongoing like in a professional setting.