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Re:6 Weeks of Claude Code by shortrounddev2 on Sunday August 03, 2025 @07:28PM (#44780718)
This is the core of the issue. You hate coding, and I love it. I chose to be a software engineer not because I like using software, but because I like writing software.

If we get to a point where the engineers are replaced by machines, I would hope that the project managers were replaced years before that, as a final act of revenge

Re:6 Weeks of Claude Code by awesome_dude on Sunday August 03, 2025 @09:04PM (#44781212)
This argument is fallacious.

I enjoy a lot of things (Software Engineering is one of them) that in NO way determines whether or not AI is coding, nor does it guarantee me a career (just ask all the blacksmiths that disappeared once cars became the mass transport vehicle).

The fact that people are going to (possibly) be able to instruct a computer to do whatever they wish without the need of a four year degree and several years of experience scares you, I get that, but that's not going to have any effect on reality.

Edit: Have a look at all the peoples careers that have ended because software took over.

Re:6 Weeks of Claude Code by exe34 on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:54AM (#44786671)
And more importantly perhaps to u/shortrounddev2, if they enjoy coding so much, they'll still be able to do it as a hobby! It's just that there may not be anybody willing to pay for a slow lumbering human to work their way through the problem.
Re:6 Weeks of Claude Code by exe34 on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:31AM (#44782670)
I don't like X, therefore X isn't true.