I'll be explicit: Claude is just another tool in your SW engineer's belt.
If you believe Claude makes you a good engineer and you previously weren't, I am saying that's not true and you still are not a good engineer even with the latest-and-greatest Claude model.
The difference is between "helps" (in your comment) or "you are". Sure, it helps a good engineer do more, do better, etc — but the thread was on being a good engineer.
So does your IDE, your choice of programming language, your OS even — but does it define you/make you a good software engineer?
No, but who said that ?
I'll be explicit: Claude is just another tool in your SW engineer's belt.
If you believe Claude makes you a good engineer and you previously weren't, I am saying that's not true and you still are not a good engineer even with the latest-and-greatest Claude model.
The difference is between "helps" (in your comment) or "you are". Sure, it helps a good engineer do more, do better, etc — but the thread was on being a good engineer.
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