Re:Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
by JeremyNT on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:22PM
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I think this is basically the only SWE-type job that exists beyond the (relatively near) future: finding the right spec and feeding it to the bots. And in this way I think even complete laypeople will be able to create software using the bots, but you'd still want somebody with a deeper understanding in this role for serious projects.
The bots even now can really help you identify technical problems / mistakes / gaps / bad assumptions, but there's no replacing "I know what the business wants/needs, and I know what makes my product manager happy, and I know what 'feels' good" type stuff.
Re:Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
by otabdeveloper4 on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:59PM
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> finding the right spec and feeding it to the bots
Also known as "compiling source code".
Is it ever the case that the spec is entirely correct (and without underspecified parts)? I thought the reason we write code is because it's much easier to express a spec as code than it is to get a similar level of precision in prose.