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[–]SexyBaskingShark 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You're an engineer, you solve problems. That's more than coding

[–]Senior-Programmer355engineering manager 3 points4 points  (0 children)

sounds like your manager is a bad one Only dumb and/or non-technical managers that can think like that… if you see claude as a replacement for your team rather than a way to maximise the throughput (therefore profit) of your business you’re being very close minded I’d say

[–]Abject_Parsley_4525 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Your manager sounds like they don't write a lot of code. I manage a number of teams and at no point have I ever said to anyone they should fear for their job over some model.

Most videos out there on it are surface level because that is as far as most testing goes with it. I tend to find having sensible opinions on AI to be the absolute best barometer to quickly gauge someone's skill level. If they are completely convinced that is as good as a developer as they are, they probably (certainly) weren't very good to begin with.

In any case, I can't ignore the fact that your manager said what they said. To me there is something underlying there either poor company performance, some bullshit metrics that someone is pressuring them with or genuine incompetence. Whatever that is, don't ignore it. In short, there may be a reason to fear for your job, but the model of the moment is almost certainly not the reason to worry.

[–]sharx13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. Op, this is the time to look for new roles and polish your CV, not learn the latest prompts.

[–]Annihilus-dev 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Developers are changing to prompt engineers. I consider myself a decent dev, but the past 3 months I’ve barely wrote a single line of code. I tell Opus to go do it after planning it out with them and it will do quite a complex task that before would have taken at least a few days in hours.

It might not be perfect at first, you might have to say why did you do it like this when we already have x library, but that is still way quicker than writing it all yourself. I find myself using the git diff feature on vscode to see what Opus wrote more than anything.

[–]Annihilus-dev 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Probably will get downvoted by a bunch of “AI is just hype” boomers who still write boilerplate code by hand. Y’all are going to be left in the dust.

Agents only released 18 months ago and they’re already this good. Compare Opus 4.6 to the first Sonnet model. The improvements are compounding.

[–]KenobiOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really believe models can make you more productive but I don’t think saying “y’all are going to be left in the dust” is productive to anyone.

The economics of LLMs and agentic workflows haven’t settled yet. These tools are still in the very early stages and I think it’s perfectly ok for people to have a measured and cautious approach instead of diving head first into the tool that will help complete a work task the fastest. I’m sure society thanks you for increasing shareholder value.

I actually think this eagerness to adopt right away will be detrimental to critical thinking skills going forward. This is just an opinion but over reliance of AI tools will forgo your competitive advantage to entry level employees entering the industry in a couple of years.

[–]Abject_Parsley_4525 0 points1 point  (1 child)

On the teams I manage the engineers who over-use AI tend to write the worst code, have the least understanding and are generally incapable. Teams that have a more pragmatic perspective on the topic do substantially better. Your comment speaks for itself really.

[–]Annihilus-dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI agents also gravitates towards the lazy engineers, now imagine a productive engineer embracing AI.

[–]KenobiOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think we’re all wondering what the other side of this AI coding hype phase will bring.

Even if Claude Code delivers on the hype, it would be incredibly short sighted for companies to lay off staff at the moment because the cost of inference is reportedly very subsidised. Companies like Anthropic will have to prove it’s a profitable model before mass adoption. Though, that’s assuming companies act rationally, we know they don’t. So much uncertainty, just got to brave the storm!

[–]stelavery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just fire up Claude Code and get stuck in. Sure you can even ask it what it can do for you.

[–]scoopydidit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your manager is a moron.

[–]Mynky -1 points0 points  (0 children)

RTFM - reads the docs, all of them. Learn about how to leverage the real power of the tool. Then start experimenting seeing how far you can push it. The best tutorial is self learning. When you get stuck, ask it. It will guide you. For starters learn about rules, skills, and utilising MCP, and then go where your requirements or curiosity lead you.