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pretty AI-sympathetic vibes in this thread. I generally agree with the author despite everyones opinion (including my own) in this thread that AI can produce great code. Just becuase the code is good doesnt absolve the human-in-the-loop from understanding and clearly documenting and communicating what the system does.

At the end of the day I'm not paying an engineer to send me claude all day. I'm paying someone to become an expert on a system, even if AI assisted. The product will be better if i have someone that deeply understands the system and where to point AI to. Someone that can understand the full big picture can also anticipate future needs - something AI cannot do at all.

I'm in EE/embedded/FPGA work and you can make an absolute hell of a mess with AI in that world, so maybe everyones opinions are more based around front end software or something. I think people forget there are fields that do not have the huge data training base that frontend/backend software does. a large majority of good designs in FPGA are proprietary at big defense corps, not on stackoverflow and github.