So will all the tech jobs in the US. When it gets that good you can farm it out to some other country for much cheaper.

I'm not sure. Possibly?

I'm still doing most of my coding by hand, because I haven't yet committed. But even for the stuff I'm doing with claude, I'm still doing a lot of the thought work and steering it to better designs. It requires an experienced dev to understand the better designs, just like it always has been.

Maybe this eventually changes and the coding agents get as good at that part, I don't know this, but I do know it is an enabler to me at the moment, and I have 20+ years of experience writing C++ and then Java in the finance industry.

I'm still new to claude, I am sure I'm going to run up against some walls soon on the more complicated stuff (haven't tried that yet), but everyone ends up working on tasks they don't find that challenging, just lots of manual keypresses to get the code into the IDE. Claude so far is making that a better experince, for me at least.

(Example, plumbing in new message types on our bus and wiring in logic to handle it - not complicated, just sits on top of complicated stuff)