Are employees from Anthropic botting this post now? This should be one of the top most voted posts in this website but it's nowhere on the first 3 pages.

Also remember, using claude to code might make the company you're working for richer. But you are forgetting your skills (seen it first hand), and you're not learning anything new. Professionally you are downgrading. Your next interview won't be testing your AI skills.

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AlexeyBelov 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Your next interview won't be testing your AI skills

Not that I disagree with your overall point, but have you interviewed recently? 90% of companies I interacted with required (!) AI skills, and me telling them how exactly I "leverage" it to increase my productivity.

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adithyassekhar 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Are they just looking for AI skills? If so that's terrifying.

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ternwer 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I think most are looking for both.

AI/LLM knowledge without programming knowledge can make a mess.

Programming knowledge without AI/LLM knowledge can also make a mess.

	▲	palmotea a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		> Programming knowledge without AI/LLM knowledge can also make a mess. How?

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tmountain 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Probably, I think hand coding is going the way of the dodo and the ox cart.

	▲	adithyassekhar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sorry but focusing on the hand coding part misses the whole picture and would derail the conversation. Comparisons like that are often dishonest. Hiring someone who writes Rust with Claude but never written anything with it in their lives, never faced the edge cases, never took the wrong decisions feels naive to me. At the end of the day it's still a next token generator, an impressive one. It can hold context but not relate with anything outside that context. Someone needs to take accountability.

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mihaaly 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Professionally you are downgrading

It is the contrary!

You learn using a very powerfool tool. This is a tool, like text editor and compiler.

But you focus on the logic and function more instead of syntax details and whims of the computer languages used in concert.

The analogy from construction is to be elevated from being a bricklayer to an engineer. Or using various shaped shovels with wheelbarrel versus mechanized tools like excavators and dumpers in making earthworks.

... of course for those the focus is in being the master of bricklayers, which is noble, no pun intended, saying with agreeing straight face, bricklaying is a fine skill with beautiful outputs in their area of use. For those AI is really unnecessary. An existential threat, but unnecessary.

	▲	adithyassekhar 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with you, syntax details are not important but they haven't been important for a long time due to better editors and linters. > But you focus on the logic and function more instead of syntax details and whims of the computer languages used in concert. This is exactly my point. I learned logical mistakes when my first if else broke. Only reason you or I can guide these into good logic is because we dealt with bad ones before all this. I use claude myself a lot because it saves me time. But we're building a culture where no one ever reads the code, instead we're building black boxes. Again you could see it as the next step in abstraction but not when everyone's this dependent on a few companies prepared to strip the world of its skills so they can sell it back to them.

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eggsandbeer an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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