This is such a great direction airbyte is taking and congrats to the lunch! I think you're very well-positioned for this opportunity than most people realize, given your reputable brand and your uncanny expertise in etl. It's honestly a natural progression of airbyte as far as the current AI landscape goes. Kudos to you and the team!
(We use airbyte at my company, although we self-host it.)
There's still going to be some craftsmanship tho, right? I think software is evolving to be like a factory. Sure, you may not care much about each part of the factory, but the way these parts fit together to produce the desired value/output is still craft IMO. I have personally started enjoying this part and it's actually becoming pretty fun.
Haha this is surprisingly and exactly how I use claude as well. Quite fascinating that we independently discovered the same workflow.
I maintain two directories: "docs/proposals" (for the research md files) and "docs/plans" (for the planning md files). For complex research files, I typically break them down into multiple planning md files so claude can implement one at a time.
A small difference in my workflow is that I use subagents during implementation to avoid context from filling up quickly.
I like this take. In other words, AI is another abstraction layer. The same way Java is an abstraction layer for C/Assembly/binary (i.e. pick whatever base layer you want). This also implies that the software development industry has to change inevitably. For example, maybe craftsmanship is a mentality of the past.
> you could be intellectually stuck right at this very moment, with the evidence right in front of your face and you just can’t see it.