Comment by akhil08agrawal
23 days ago
This resonates with what I'm experiencing, but I think the article misses the real shift happening now.
The conversation shouldn't be "will AI replace developers". It should be "how do humans stay competitive as AI gets 10x better every 18 months?"
I watched Claude Code build a feature in 30 minutes that used to take weeks. That moment crystallised something: you don't compete WITH AI. You need YOUR personal AI.
Here's what I mean: Frontier teams at Anthropic/OpenAI have 20-person research teams monitoring everything 24/7. They're 2-4 weeks ahead today. By 2027? 16+ weeks ahead. This "frontier gap" is exponential.
The real problem isn't tools or abstraction. It's information overload at scale. When AI collapses execution time, the bottleneck shifts to judgment. And good judgment requires staying current across 50+ sources (Twitter, Reddit, arXiv, Discord, HN).
Generic ChatGPT is commodity. What matters is: does your AI know YOUR priorities? Does it learn YOUR judgment patterns? Does it filter information through YOUR lens?
The article is right that tools don't eliminate complexity. But personal AI doesn't eliminate complexity. It amplifies YOUR ability to handle complexity at frontier speed.
The question isn't about replacement. It's about levelling the playing field. And frankly we all are figuring out on how will this shape out in the future. And if you have any solution that can help me level up, please hit me up.
> And good judgment requires staying current across 50+ sources (Twitter, Reddit, arXiv, Discord, HN).
Your mention of the hellhole that is today's twitter as the first item in your list of sources to follow for achieving "good judgement" made it easy for me to recognize that in fact you have very bad judgement.
What feature is it that Claude Code built in 30 minutes?
For some reason everyone that says things like this never follow up with anything concrete, don’t share prompts or snippets, etc.
This project is completely built using claude code: https://github.com/ako/backing-tracks Most of the features take less than 30 minutes.
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I’ve seen first hand people talk big about how they used LLMs on a project and it’s clear they’ve only done the first 80%. Yeah they’re good tools. But they also enable laziness.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vizzly-testing/honeydiff
I worked for Percy for 4 years. We were “stuck” with imagemagik to do diffing (I’m sure they still might). I was able to build my own differ with Claude/LLM help.
That special enough for you? Or?
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I have built many projects in hours that we can say would have reasonably taken me a month, to research the technology I did not know beforehand. 30 minutes is often enough to build a first version of the project. For example an audio book listener app, winter swimming iPhone/iWatch app combination, and markdown editor for OS X in Swift.
I have also added complex features in 30 minutes to existing projects, but I don't remember any that themselves would have taken me months though.
this comment is pretty obviously written by AI