Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?

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I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend s company to see what they were working on (15 ppl). To preface: I m a heavy user of Claude (rarely write code by hand), but what I m seeing in person has been rather shocking to me, and I wanted to calibrate with others.In particular: - the code is not the source of truth anymore; it s ask claude to write, and ask claude to explain - LoC, abstractions, and all those software development principles does not seem to matter to people - Code review is not done by humans - Actually understanding the problem deeply seems to be offloaded to claude - Some developers are running like 5+ simultaneous claude sessions, and no code is being looked at - Explosion of llm-generated testsFirst off, is this similar to what s going on at your company?If this company is representative, it feels like software development is going from a precise occupation that requires high degree of understanding to something probabilistic and offloaded understanding (to eventually not an occupation at all honestly).I m interested to hear other folks perspectives.

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