How many of us here are building something genuinely new, though?

Hopefully everyone? Else your job could have been outsourced or replaced by a junior with access to Google and StackOverflow way before LLMs (it just wasn’t due to zero interest rates and proliferation of bullshit jobs in tech companies).

That's not been my experience. Most professional software is just a CRUD app in one form or another.

Yes and it’s probably better for society as a whole that all of those can now be vibe coded by someone who is not a full time developer.

And to close the loop - there is no architectural thinking without experience in execution. The highly productive people who are all-in on agentic coding today are powered by their previous experience doing implementation. As time goes on their powers will wane unless they make a point to keep them sharp by doing enough hands-on implementation.

It’s the same as a “non-coding architect” role (remember those). Most of them are absolutely full of shit architecture astronauts.

I have had similar when trying it too. I couldn't even drive Claude Opus 4.7 to get PETsc to compile properly (with all the optional dependencies)

Sure. But where do you think AI will be in a year? Or do you think that AI is just an advanced Markov chain? Like “AI will never be able to write code. Ok AI will never be able to debug code. ok ai will never be able to write design docs. Ok AI will never be able to architecture. Ok ai will never be able to do distributed systems architecture. Ok ai will never be able to design new products completely from scratch. Ok AI will never be able to run a company. Ok AI will never be able to run a city. Ok AI will never be able to run a government. Ok ai will never be able to run the world economy…” It’s Robin Williams Gaddadi sketch “Ok you cross this line you die!” [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/GCOOOyuTBzA?si=YnCWH9LJqb_yYolG

I find that too, Claude Code is constantly trying to break the architecture patterns and do hacky stuff

Like its only focused on solving the local problem as easy as possible

>literally hundreds of orders of magnitude slower

I'm sure this is just a slip of the tongue (finger), but the idea of being a numerical googol times slower is funny.