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If Claude Code can do it what do we need you for?
by dingnuts 1y ago
If Claude Code can do it what do we need you for?
- simonw 1y agoSomeone needs to know what a "database migration" is in order to ask Claude to build one. I think a lot of people are massively underestimating how much knowledge and skill is needed in software engineering beyond typing code into a text editor.
- bgwalter 1y agoYou know that Linus was at one point "typing code into an editor" to review other people's patches because he found it easier to catch mistakes that way. If your field of software engineering is so simple that you can survive on code snippets stolen from other people, great. Please do not generalize that.
- evilduck 1y agoHow do you know it did it correctly?
- turnsout 1y agoGet this: I read the code and understand it
- turnsout 1y agoSomeone has to come up with the idea for app, have a vision for what it needs to be, and continually push it forward without going off-course.
- badsectoracula 1y agoWhat simonw wrote but also someone needs to ensure the code is correct and take the blame once it fails :-P. I think even if we ever reach actual AGI (in the far far future), we'll still want low level meatbags around to blame :-P