Re:Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking"
by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:04AM
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> AI and tbh society in general just invalidates the economic viability of learning what’s under the foundations.
It was ever thus, learning the foundations of basically anything was never economically rational. I mean, I'd have been much better off learning product marketing rather than working my way through Volume 1 of Knuth's TAOCP.
And yet, I still did the non economically rational thing.
It was ever thus, learning the foundations of basically anything was never economically rational. I mean, I'd have been much better off learning product marketing rather than working my way through Volume 1 of Knuth's TAOCP.
And yet, I still did the non economically rational thing.