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by adriand 81 days ago
> Anyone who has been doing this professionally will tell you that the "last step" is what takes the majority of time and effort.

This is true, and I bet there are thousands of people who are in this stage right now - having gotten there far faster than they would have without Claude Code - which makes me predict that the point made in the article will not age well. I think it’s just a matter of a bit more time before the deluge starts, something on the order of six more months.

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I'd argue that LLMs are not yet capable of the last step, and because most sufficiently large AI-generated codebase are an unmaintainable mess, it's also very hard for a human developer to take over and go the last mile.
So what is the “last step”? I have one shotted a complete AWS CDK app to create infrastructure on an empty AWS account and deploy everything - networking, VPC endpoints, Docker based lambdas, databases, logging, monitoring alerts etc.

Yes I know AWS well and was detailed about the requirements z