Comment by AussieWog93
6 days ago
I don't really see your point. Most problems that people have aren't really super-novel, but just extremely bespoke.
To give a specific example, 12 months ago I had a client pay me me to make a Chrome plugin that changed the rows in his Shopify Products page to display Quantity and SKU.
These days you'd just one-shot it in Claude.
First of all it just underlines how shitty the web has become, second If that's your work I'd chase a career path where Claude can't one-shot this kind of dumb stuff
It's not my work. I'm not even a full time dev any more.
But the client's problem was solved, and they're happy.
This is a genuinely useful thing. You don't need to shit all over it.
Thats quite a surprisingly arrogant take.
CRUD applications and converting business requirements into code is the thing software developers do to 99% day in day out.
If you break down a complicated coding problem in smaller parts, it could be any problem.
You will see its basically a very reusable part thats already done uncountable times else where.
People who think they do something so special and novel that it just can't be done by non-human, struggle with breaking down a problem in smaller parts.
Even if you do have such novel problems, its not like every single day, every single bit of work you do is like that.
Curious, what's the career path you'd chase? Can you give examples of some work that you think Claude will never be able to one-shot?
Oddly enough switched from software to selling retro games online.
Made ridiculous bank during 2019-2023, lost money 2024-2025 (I wasn't doing proper accounting at that stage, so it took a while to really internalise that the market wasn't insane anymore), looks like we'll make a decent-ish profit in 2025-2026 after pivoting the business model. Some regrets but it's possible staying in software could have been just as turbulent.
Funnily enough we're finally at the stage where I can launching my SaaS side-hustle which I've been sitting on for the past year and a half, so that could end up back in software again soon.
I would never say never, since I don't know what Claude would look like in 5 years' time, but there's plenty it can't do at the moment.
To give a concrete example, I don't let it make sweeping changes to the main "business logic" of my SaaS. Not because it's necessarily wrong but because I can't easily verify it. But I'll let it rip on peripheral stuff, or co-work with it.