Cal Newport: On AI Coding and Its Discontents
Cal Newport recounts a senior engineer who switched exclusively to Claude Code and saw tasks drop from a week to 2 days — but AI-generated features crashed their product twice, and his boss threatened to fire him on a third occurrence. Newport also surveyed 300+ developers on the shift.
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