> Fixing it would require such a colossal amount of work that it would be impossible to even start justifying it to anyone in management.

Bad news: by delegating the thinking to somebody else (Claude) you have become the management.

This is exactly how I feel about my job now. I'm the new manager. But honestly claude is better than any team of developers I've ever had working under me. It does exactly what I ask it to, in 10 minutes instead of 3 weeks. And apparently we can't afford a development team now anyway...

I'm not working at massive scale. I've not built any public-facing projects from scratch. But I have done years-worth of cleanup and improvement on projects that I'm very familiar with and have been in my backlog. It's not 100% success, but it's better than I could have done on my own, in the last few months anyway.

A manager isn’t normally the person deciding how the software should be architected or implemented. Their job is largely priorities, people, coordination and resource allocation.

You are still an engineer but you’ve delegated your technical judgement to an LLM. You just stopped doing the most important part of your engineering job.

Nooo. But seriously, that does appear to be the end result on most of my recent sessions. The time I spend is on correcting, adjusting.. dare I say managing the process as opposed to actively editing every aspect of it.