It’s fine at replacing what stack overflow did nearly a decade ago, but that isn’t really an improvement from my baseline.
This is what's so frustrating about the hype bros for me. In most cases, everything AI spits out are code smells.
We're all just supposed to toss out every engineering principle we've learned all so the owner class can hire less developers and suppress wages?
I'm sure it's working great for everyone working on SaaS CRUD or web apps, but it's still not anywhere close to solving problems outside that sphere. Native? It's very hit and miss. It has very little design sense (because, why would it? It's a language model) so it chokes on SwiftUI, it also can't stop using deprecated stuff.
And that's not even that specialized. It still hallucinates cmdlets if you try to do anything with PowerShell, and has near zero knowledge about the industry I work in, a historically not tech-forward industry where things are still shared in handcrafted PDF reports emailed out to subscribers.
I'm going to leave this field entirely if the answer just becomes "just make everything in React/React Native because it's what the AI does best."
I end up replacing any saved time with QA and code review and I really don’t see how that’s going to change.
In my mind I see Claude as a better search engine that understands code well enough to find answers and gain understanding faster. That’s about it.