[AussieWog93]

I don't really see your point. Most problems that people have aren't really super-novel, but just extremely bespoke.

To give a specific example, 12 months ago I had a client pay me me to make a Chrome plugin that changed the rows in his Shopify Products page to display Quantity and SKU.

These days you'd just one-shot it in Claude.

[hollowturtle]

First of all it just underlines how shitty the web has become, second If that's your work I'd chase a career path where Claude can't one-shot this kind of dumb stuff

[AussieWog93]

It's not my work. I'm not even a full time dev any more.

But the client's problem was solved, and they're happy.

This is a genuinely useful thing. You don't need to shit all over it.

[Glohrischi]

Thats quite a surprisingly arrogant take.

CRUD applications and converting business requirements into code is the thing software developers do to 99% day in day out.

[kamaal]

If you break down a complicated coding problem in smaller parts, it could be any problem.

You will see its basically a very reusable part thats already done uncountable times else where.

People who think they do something so special and novel that it just can't be done by non-human, struggle with breaking down a problem in smaller parts.

Even if you do have such novel problems, its not like every single day, every single bit of work you do is like that.

[emilsoman]

Curious, what's the career path you'd chase? Can you give examples of some work that you think Claude will never be able to one-shot?

[AussieWog93]

Oddly enough switched from software to selling retro games online.

Made ridiculous bank during 2019-2023, lost money 2024-2025 (I wasn't doing proper accounting at that stage, so it took a while to really internalise that the market wasn't insane anymore), looks like we'll make a decent-ish profit in 2025-2026 after pivoting the business model. Some regrets but it's possible staying in software could have been just as turbulent.

Funnily enough we're finally at the stage where I can launching my SaaS side-hustle which I've been sitting on for the past year and a half, so that could end up back in software again soon.

I would never say never, since I don't know what Claude would look like in 5 years' time, but there's plenty it can't do at the moment.

To give a concrete example, I don't let it make sweeping changes to the main "business logic" of my SaaS. Not because it's necessarily wrong but because I can't easily verify it. But I'll let it rip on peripheral stuff, or co-work with it.