Albertatech has a video about a manager who fired his last software engineer because “he could code faster with Claude than an SE” and she was all “most programmers can code faster than an SE even without Claude, the point of an SE isn’t speed, it’s making sure your codebase is maintainable, scalable, and reliable”
These managers decide who stays on their teams without any understanding of what their team does. It’s like a 5 year old firing Davinci because he can draw a lady smiling with long brown hair faster with Claude crayons.
If you know in your heart of hearts that if you don’t show up for work, everything’s fine, but if all the workers don’t show up for work, everything stops, you have to, like, confront the possibility that maybe you’re not in the driver’s seat, maybe you’re in the back seat with a toy Fisher-Price steering wheel. And AI is like the possibility of wiring that steering wheel directly into the drive train.
Albertatech has a video about a manager who fired his last software engineer because “he could code faster with Claude than an SE” and she was all “most programmers can code faster than an SE even without Claude, the point of an SE isn’t speed, it’s making sure your codebase is maintainable, scalable, and reliable”
These managers decide who stays on their teams without any understanding of what their team does. It’s like a 5 year old firing Davinci because he can draw a lady smiling with long brown hair faster with
Claudecrayons.Cory Doctorow has a really good quote about why AI is so appealing to managers: