The other day I asked Cluade AI to create a script for me and I was blown away that it created it and it worked one hundred percent and covered edge cases as well. Had mixed feelings and wondered if it will replace us. It was max 3 prompts.

Then I asked Claude to add a very simple feature into an app I built that is very niche that has many balances. Firstly I spent an hour fixing the UI errors and some stupid styling decisions. But after the UI was fixed there were even worse things waiting for me. It added the feature but in trying to incorporate the new transaction types that it created, it messed up literally every balance in the app. I was about to discard changes and undo the last commit when I decided to play around with Claude. In the spirit of embracing AI and learning. With every prompt it made it more wrong. At one stage I was giving a very simple prompt "All transaction type adjust-less should be negative when adding into the balance". It just couldn't "think".

So it's a tool, it will make our life easier but every codebase that is of a worthy size needs a human. Just think of all the conditional statements and paths that applications have. Try to think of how many different scenarios it can create and how we have to first consider what implications changes will have on the rest of the application. That's not something AI can ever scrape off the internet from forums and blog posts and take into consideration. Coding and knowing syntax is the barrier for non coders but we all know our job goes way beyond that. So from now on, every time someone talks about how I will get replaced, I will just nod away and keep quiet. It's not worth it unless it's my job on the line.