Comment by jerkstate
20 days ago
There's a big difference between "I tried it and it produced crap" and "it will replace developers entirely any day now"
People who use this stuff everyday know that people who are still saying "I tried it and it produced crap" just don't know how to use it correctly. Those developers WILL get replaced - by ones who know how to use the tool.
> Those developers WILL get replaced - by ones who know how to use the tool.
Now _that_ I would believe. But note how different "those who fail to adapt to this new tool will be replaced" is from "the vast majority will be replaced by this tool itself".
If someone had said that six (give or take) months ago I would have dismissed it as hype. But there have been at least a few decently well documented AI assisted projects done by veteran developers that have made the front page recently. Importantly they've shown clear and undeniable results as opposed to handwaving and empty aspirations. They've also been up front about the shortcomings of the new tool.
You probably mean antirez porting Flux to c. There were not too many shortcomings in his breakdown; his biggest one as I saw was that his knowledge and experience building large c programs really was a requirement. But given one of these experts, you don't see how that person and claude code just replaces a team. The less capable people on the team cannot do what he does so before they were just entering code and getting corrected in reviews or asking for help. Now the AI can do that, but on 10 projects in parallel. In a weekend you wont have time for that but not everything has to be done in a weekend.