Worry not, for I am using Claude right now. I would never question the doctrine of AI usefulness and productivity. Please scrap that J'accuse draft, sir, for I would never commit blasphemy against AI, I promise.

I stopped writing code manually more than a year ago. I've experienced the 100x, even perhaps the 1000x he mentions, and I still think he's fucking psychotic.

Not reading generated webapp code is one thing. Blindly commiting OS code is a whole different dimension, as is writing production code in a language you don't even know how to read.

For varying definitions of results.

It's still early days, I'm hesitant to claim the death of software engineering. It's good now because LLMs were all trained on actual human output. One possible future is a slop death spiral.