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1. OJFord+Xa[view] [source] 2026-01-03 16:40:49
>>ksec+(OP)
> There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

This is silly, they didn't spend a year trying to crank out the right code, they spent a year not being aligned, disagreeing on approach, getting people to commit, support from other teams providing necessary integrations or platform etc. - Claude didn't help with any of that, it just did the code part, which wasn't the problem in the first place.

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2. NewsaH+bd[view] [source] 2026-01-03 16:51:17
>>OJFord+Xa
Does all of that stuff have to be done by developers though, or project managers?
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3. OJFord+5p[view] [source] 2026-01-03 17:56:58
>>NewsaH+bd
I assume at least some of it was technical disagreement, so PMs sure but also TPMs and what have been called SWEs even if hypothetically we don't call them that any more because in the brave new AI world they don't need to directly create software any more.

(I've personally never applied to somewhere that advertised that it would call me a 'developer', because that just sounds like a very boring factory-line 'churn out the code as described in this work ticket' role to me, that I don't want and didn't get a professional degree for, even before all this LLM/'agentic' possibility.)

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