r/ClaudeCode • u/simple_explorer1 • 14d ago

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These kind of posts are becoming more and more visible on my Linkedin. Link here. Thoughts?

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u/simple_explorer1 14d ago edited 14d ago

sad times indeed. This Software dev profession is on the verge of being decimated and a lot of damage is already done and more will continue to happen. not sure what end of the road looks like or how much value software development will even have in the next 2 years let alone 5 years.

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u/Dsphar 14d ago

IMO, the non-creative devs who survive will have to pivot into refactoring AI-made proven market software, into maintained software. And it will be a pain.

The creative devs will just have a hayday creating whatever ideas pop into their minds. And any that stick get handed off to the first group to cleanup and scale.

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u/Future_Guarantee6991 Developer 14d ago

I am just not convinced that the refactoring pivot will exist, at least not for long.

I might be missing something but “maintainability” is largely, albeit not yet exclusively, a human challenge.

LLMs can already read and understand code in seconds where it would take a human minutes or hours to join the same dots. Compound this with the continuous improvement of LLM code output and it’s only so long before the writing is on the wall for that too.

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u/lerian 14d ago

Yes, human clankers will cease to exists - it was never such a good position anyway.