Are they maintaining it if all they do is type prompts into Claude?
They may be doing a poor job of it - time will tell.
But, at present, they're still the ones merging PRs and deploying changes to production.
If a person in a Chinese Room doesn't actually understand Chinese, though the system as a whole behaves as if it does - can we say that the engineer merging PRs and deploying to production understands the system or maintains it?
They may be doing a poor job of it - time will tell.
But, at present, they're still the ones merging PRs and deploying changes to production.