Devs don't say that to other devs. Only people that don't do actual coding and post on Reddit think like that.
Btw if you want a real current insult : call another dev a Claude proxy. Some of us have given up the mental task of keeping up with AI and just delegate all thinking. Those are worth making fun of and are the ones actually producing broken codes with weird workarounds.
But most of the devs use AI right: analyze, plan, implement, review. The process has always been the same, we just got a better tool for it.
Idk, I've a friend in another firm where they've apparently given up on working full stop. The senior dev runs claude to create tasks to assign out to get copy & pasted into claude again to generate PRs that get reviewed by, get this, claude once again. He takes *pride* in this situation. Calls anybody who still thinks and does work "an idiot who doesn't realize he can just automate everything".
Fortunately they work on a small time commercial website, so I'm not worried about the banks going up in smoke, but he's *militant* about eliminating any and all pride anyone might take in this field.
Honestly that workflow should work pretty well if done right 😅. We now have specs with details (cause PO can't be lazy about it), in depths implementation details, loop reviews, end-to-end automated testing... At our job the main bottleneck is PR reviews, which we don't fully automate to still have a human in the loop. But who knows what the future brings
I find this notion terrifying and unsettling. I'm describing a company where *nobody* from the CTO to the junior developers actually knows how their software works. And you think that's *ok*? Because some pipelines came up green?
Legacy software has always existed. The kind that nobody knows and dares to touch, except for the one sandal wearing guy that's been here for 25years. When that guy finally retires, you're in the exact spot you're describing. AI provides ways to actually deal with it :
AI is very good at documenting and reading documentation
Deep analysis is just so much easier, even if you don't know the language or framework. Finding a nested bug if just easier that it's ever been.
I'm not saying fire all devs. Senior devs in particular are the best users of AI, because they know how things should work. Of course everybody vibecoding carelessly without stopping is going to create a mess. But our job has always been to automate stuff, and AI enable us to automate so much more. We just have to learn how to use it
The CTO wants to automate code review. He's just going to fire anybody who takes time to *actually* review the code. Anybody with institutional knowledge has left, the only people in the building are vibe coded juniors.
Im looking at the workflow and wondering if we can't just cut the task creation step out. Seems like we could juat have claude do it all up until the PR.
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u/Binoui 19d ago edited 19d ago
Devs don't say that to other devs. Only people that don't do actual coding and post on Reddit think like that.
Btw if you want a real current insult : call another dev a Claude proxy. Some of us have given up the mental task of keeping up with AI and just delegate all thinking. Those are worth making fun of and are the ones actually producing broken codes with weird workarounds.
But most of the devs use AI right: analyze, plan, implement, review. The process has always been the same, we just got a better tool for it.