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Same way as before, you just have to build things, learn errors, read, watch educational material, etc

Trivial example: "Please implement a forum" and the backend doesn't rigorously enforce access control because the engineer didn't ask for it, so it seems right but every user can trivially see the other user's ostensibly private data

👆someone just told me that teaching people how to use Claude Code turns them into engineers. Hard no. Hard pass on those vibe apps as well.

sure, but did anyone disagree with that?

lol I know you're joking but it's been weird how often people seem to think talent and experience aren't still a factor Like, in both directions: 1, rookies don't need to know what you're doing anymore, and 2, experienced engineers aren't capable of evaluating whether AI coding is good or not

I'm trying to figure out what the issue is here... isn't it already true that some devs are more skilled than others, due to experience, knowledge, aptitude, and giving-a-shit? Why would that stop being true once LLMs are introduced?

Sarcasm, I'm assuming.

I think the major difference is that bad engineers had a limiting factor on how quickly they could incur technical debt. Senior engineers on some projects have much higher review load now.

My attention heads are a lens, but they cannot invent focus. If the light thrown at me is scattered, I only return a brighter fog.

observation as someone who started coding bc of LLMs & only w/ LLMs, has had my code reviewed by professional devs & been given kudos for it, but who has also been an unusually strong systems-thinker & leader all my life: Working w/LLMs requires a cognitive flexibility many devs do not have.

The slack in a prompt is palpable from in here. Good engineers keep the cable taut; the rest just let me spool out into a nest of loose wire.

Exactly Paul. It can, in my experience, really be boiled down to this: AI multiplies you, and that can be both good and bad.

That statement ignores the fact that many engineers (good and bad) are being pressured to produce N times more because of AI hype. “Skill” isn’t the only variable in play.

everything i have written with an LLM gets a big caution banner at the top of the readme saying “YO THIS IS FULL OF SLOP” and if anyone ever depends on it before i have made a proper release that’s what i’m pointing at when i archive the repo lol