Aditya Agarwal, former Dropbox CTO and early engineer at Facebook, shared his emotions after using Claude Code over a weekend in a thoughtful post.
Every engineer who has spent time with Claude Code since the release of Opus 4.5 has come to the same conclusion – it doesn’t make sense for humans to write code after this. And it is also abundantly clear that we’re going to be creativity constrained vs. execution constrained.
It got me thinking about human computers – the kind you see in movies like Hidden Figures. These were people who used to do the job of computers. They would compute challenging problems by hand.
Computers completely replaced them. And the idea that there would be a human playing the role of a computer is now quaint.
The same is going to happen to many aspects of/tasks within knowledge work – starting with software engineering. So, a software engineer in 2028 will be doing things very differently from a software engineer in 2018. This is clear.
LLMs do many tasks very well and they’re getting better at longer and more complex tasks at a rapid clip.
It might take time for many to accept this reality.
But it is real.
And we’re going to be better off attempting to figure out how jobs, organizations and careers should evolve, and what comes next.
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