> Fixing it would require such a colossal amount of work that it would be impossible to even start justifying it to anyone in management.
Bad news: by delegating the thinking to somebody else (Claude) you have become the management.
Bad news: by delegating the thinking to somebody else (Claude) you have become the management.
I'm not working at massive scale. I've not built any public-facing projects from scratch. But I have done years-worth of cleanup and improvement on projects that I'm very familiar with and have been in my backlog. It's not 100% success, but it's better than I could have done on my own, in the last few months anyway.
I'm at the "this takes the scut work off my plate but damn if it doesn't also take the fun stuff off my plate too, and might put me out of job before I'm ready to retire in 8 years" point.
Though I've done the corporate America thing long enough to appreciate that 8 years isn't really all that long, maybe there's hope.
You are still an engineer but you’ve delegated your technical judgement to an LLM. You just stopped doing the most important part of your engineering job.