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by codexon 117 days ago
You can replace it with a much lower paid employee though.
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A lower paid and less qualified employee won’t be able to spot when the AI screws up.

Having a higher-paid, qualified employee supervising multiple AIs as the human only needs to spot for mistakes - maybe.

I'm not sure that's entirely true. For most things, checking if a solution is correct is much easier than implementing it (page looks wrong, can't login etc...)
You’re looking at the end result, I’m looking at implementation. Engineering management, not QA.
You definitely cannot. Code org, architecture, and system design are senior level roles and responsibilities.
AI is already aware of the best practices. It does not just blindly do what you ask of it in the simplest way.
Best practices are always situation dependent.
Claude code will prompt you and explain to you what practice fits a situation. It might not do it perfectly, but the foundations are there.
That's not growth. Growth is having the existing employee do more.
I'm not arguing about growth. I was addressing this statement which seems to presume that AI has no effect if the job can't be removed.

> If AI can't do 100% of a job then you can't remove the job.