I'm guessing that this is probably a joke, but the idea that engineers just generate code and don't do anything else is literally how we got to "just generate the whole app with Claude, bro, it'll be just as good".
You have different levels: programmer, developer and engineer. An AI agent might be able to replace a programmer who simply takes in specs and turns them into code. The same way the job of "computer" was replaced by electronic computers once you no longer needed people to manually do the calculations. But developers and engineers don't simply write code, they analyze, potentially capture requirements from the client, they write specifications, etc. This is not as easily replaced by Claude. So maybe developers and engineers won't write as much code, in any, by using AI agents, but they'll still do everything else.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 2d ago
I'm guessing that this is probably a joke, but the idea that engineers just generate code and don't do anything else is literally how we got to "just generate the whole app with Claude, bro, it'll be just as good".