[mgfist]

I started a new job recently after 9 months off. Last Sept I was coding almost entirely by hand, using AI for q/a, debugging and such.

In my new job I haven't written a single line by hand. I now almost entirely work in claude code / codex and in github PRs. Occasionally I open vscode to read code, but very rarely. My company probably spends ~$100 a day for my token use. I'm not even going crazy with parallelization or subagents and such.

I 100% believe the demand growth based on my personal experience.

[Traubenfuchs]

Talking to dev friends, dev colleagues and qa colleagues in a space where everyone is doing high volume CRUD and cloud slop with many microservices and constantly evolving business requirements: Every single one is primarily coding with claude, a few with cursor. Handwriting code is dead.