I find interview loops great for catching edge cases and refining my hand written specs.

I don’t doubt the problems in this article exist and I’ve seen them, in my experience the vast majority of people are still shipping the same quality or better than before they has Claude. Personally, I feel like I’m probably developing at about 1.5x the speed of not using AI tooling. It’s not a silver bullet, but it can be a great assistant.

Is this the same subset of people who copy/paste code directly from stack overflow without understanding ? I’m not sure this is a new problem.

It's a new problem in the sense that now executive management at many (if not most) software companies is pushing for all employees to work this way as much as possible. Those same people probably don't know what stack overflow even is.

In my experience, no - I think the ability to build more complete features with less/little/no effort, rather than isolated functions, is (more) appealing to (more) developers.

I don't think so. I'll spend a ton of time and effort thinking through, revising, and planning out the approach, but I let the agent take the wheel when it comes to transpiling that to code. I don't actually care about the code so long as it's secure and works.

I spent years cultivating expertise in C++ and .NET. And I found that time both valuable and enjoyable. But that's because it was a path to solve problems for my team, give guidance, and do so with both breadth and depth.

Now I focus on problems at a higher level of abstraction. I am certain there's still value in understanding ownership semantics and using reflection effectively, but they're broadly less relevant concerns.

It's difficult to copy & paste an entire app from Stack Overflow

Copied and pasted without noting the license that stack overflow has on code published there, no doubt

Hey. I resemble that remark sometimes!! quit being a hater (sarcasm) :P