I've been using GitHub for over 2 decades now so its not that I don't still love them. I just worry that GitHub will become just another arm of Microsoft's AI strategy. It FEELS like the platform is being reshaped around monetizing AI rather than serving developers but that's just my opinion.
PLEASE DON'T CHANGE! I have been a diehard fan of Claude since the early days (when it would delete an entire week's worth of work lol) and you managed to make it the BEST coding AI on the planet while sticking to your VALUES. You don't see that anymore but I think THAT is why the people will support you :)
"Quality" is a lost art. I haven't seen much of it in DECADES. I miss when people actually cared about the quality of products :( Like you pointed out, these days its all about speed and just pushing crap out there.
I get it but what if the upward trajectory in AI improvement we're seeing eventually gets so close we can barely tell the difference? I'm not saying they will be 100% "human" but they sure will FEEL like it. Enough to distort reality in a sense.
Oh but they ARE! MUAHAHAHA... no seriously... Claude in particular is getting awful human like. It just cracked a joke about something I mentioned 2 months ago. GULP. I joke about it but at the same time we can see that layer 47 activated in some pattern and that attention heads focused on certain tokens, but translating that into "the model reasoned about X, then connected it to Y, then chose Z" is still largely unsolved.
"But guided? The models can write better code than most developers. " <- THIS PART! I get that "senior" developers feel a certain kind of way about it but the truth is that AI really DOES write better code than most developers. I'm not saying ALL developers but AI (at least in my experience with Claude) does the "coding" part much better. They might not be ready to get it perfect yet but they're getting closer every couple of months. It won't be long now. This scares people. I prefer to embrace this AI movement. There is no stopping it no matter how much people complain about it. We all know that. What I'm realizing is that instead of spending all that time actually WRITING the code I have more time to THINK about what I want to do. It reduces the cognitive load :)
This resonates. I just open-sourced a project and someone on Reddit ran a full security audit using Claude found 15 issues across the codebase including FTS injection, LIKE wildcard injection, missing API auth, and privacy enforcement gaps I'd missed entirely.
What surprised me was how methodical it was. Not just "this looks unsafe" it categorized by severity, cited exact file paths and line numbers, and identified gaps between what the docs promised and what the code actually implemented. The "spec vs reality" analysis was the most useful part.
Makes me think the biggest impact of LLM security auditing isn't finding novel zero-days it's the mundane stuff that humans skip because it's tedious. Checking every error handler for information leakage, verifying that every documented security feature is actually implemented, scanning for injection points across hundreds of routes. That's exactly the kind of work that benefits from tireless pattern matching.
What happens when AI gets so good that even "Juniors" can compete with "Seniors"? It's going to happen at SOME point. I think what will separate devs will be their creativity and ideas. Those that can think outside the box will be the ones getting hired. With that said, I sometimes feel like eventually the OFFICE MANAGER will be coding everything for their company lol.