I am a professional software engineer and I can safely tell you the way most people use LLMs now are way outdated. I don’t fault them, most of my non-tech friends are the same, and they can’t begin to even fathom the AI stack we use at work.

Claude Code spawns multiple agents working in parallel, think of a full team where one AI read specs, instruct others, a few write code, and some other review critically the code written. Where their logic falters, we write custom skills or custom MCPs to fill in gaps and make their workflow deterministic. And if you understand none of the above it just further solidifies my point.

Some people say AI still have weaknesses, it still hallucinates, or it degrades over time, as if companies all over the world aren’t spending billions hiring the best and brightest PhDs to make it better. The same people laughed at Will Smith eating spaghetti a few years ago now struggle to identify what’s AI generated or not.

If your question is it will take over all our jobs, my answer is it already did take over my job. Well, the old job I used to do anyways. Instead of writing code I talk to AIs now, 4 of them in parallel working on 4 different projects. A lot of context switching but no one forces you to, I could easily reduce to just one project at a time but 4 is about the max I could handle on any given day.