Florian Herrengt: AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
Essay quoted by Simon Willison: teams repeatedly ask Claude to fix bugs no one understands, watching "an endless wall of text" with no idea if any of it is true. Herrengt argues AI-assisted projects grow so convoluted that "no one on your team could possibly start to understand what's going on."
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