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Current mood: the majority of software development is so bad it frankly deserves to be replaced by AI

Supposed to be sorting out presents for my wife's birthday, but got distracted by a terrible take on LinkedIn where they're mesuring dev productivity by lines of code written and therefore worked out Claude Code is 2,500 more productive than a human. Was a Principal Enginner at Microsoft no less.

In any big company, practices will vary widely from team to team. As an anecdote, the principal and senior software engineer ICs I work with write significant amounts of code. They just also spend more time identifying problems and the bigger picture with what code should be written.

And I hope working collaboratively, not just spoon feeding tasks down the chain to junior engineers?

Collaboration is a part of the culture I’ve always been most impressed by. All engineers, including interns, are encouraged to explore the problems and have their voices heard. I hope this is the case universally across the company, because I think it’s an important time to support junior engineers