To be honest, this is less about Claude Code per se (or any other coding agent) and more about business and corporate culture. In my experience, if you work at a company whose culture is to deliver as fast as possible, then this is ultimately what you get when those same managers start to realize we can also ship 10x faster (no matter the costs). The "Delivery Pressure" is very real in _some_ corporations, and I _believe_ things like Claude/Codex just accelerate this even more, which is what we're seeing in some places. In a fast-place industry, can you blame 'em?
Before you used to sometimes having more tech savy customers put out a VB or Delphi click demo over an weekend kind of effort, and then complain why is the delivery so expensive.
Now they do the same with AI agents.
And then people still think their developer jobs are safe.
When actually it should be software companies that should be worried. If you believe like some guys do that you can just point an LLM to any piece of software in the world and ask it to patch it / replicate it / maintain it with zero copyright repercussions, what is the point of software companies again?
Which is why compared to the times before the camera was invented, earning the living as a painter is vastly reduced to a few that manage to make it.
Likewise since digital photography became common, most photography shops closed, those that are around usually barely survive with services like photos for government official documents.
Events photography is also a niche nowadays, as the organisers then sample the photos done by guests on their mobile phones. Very few professional photographers still get such gigs.
prologic · · focus · HN ↗
pjmlp · · focus · HN ↗
Before you used to sometimes having more tech savy customers put out a VB or Delphi click demo over an weekend kind of effort, and then complain why is the delivery so expensive.
Now they do the same with AI agents.
And then people still think their developer jobs are safe.
aeonflux · · focus · HN ↗
From my experience, most developers are actually very anxious and scared about their future.
AshamedCaptain · · focus · HN ↗
ubertaco · · focus · HN ↗
(i.e. the ability to copy existing things does not obsolete the need to be able to make new things)
pjmlp · · focus · HN ↗
Likewise since digital photography became common, most photography shops closed, those that are around usually barely survive with services like photos for government official documents.
Events photography is also a niche nowadays, as the organisers then sample the photos done by guests on their mobile phones. Very few professional photographers still get such gigs.