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It’s very meta when you think about it. Software engineering is largely about building gradual levels of abstraction. And now the job itself is being abstracted layer after layer.
I feel for experienced devs. I know someone who’s just stuck in some kind of (existential?) angst and nihilism about AI. Also I think the whole game is pretty much just pay to play no? Monkey with Claude Max 20x is better than the dev with 20 years of experience.
Same with mathematicians right now. Lots of existential dread flying around. I fell for all of them. Nobody deserves to be put in that position, even if the whole world benefits long term from the advent of AI (those two positions can both be true). I created a walkable 3D render of Jose Luis Borges’ Library of Babel last weekend. Fully programmatically and deterministicallt generated universe. Claude just oneshot the whole thing from the first prompt. I did not see nor touch a single LOC. It’s just insane.
