* Work scales with meaningful decisions, not lines of code.
* A person can only make so many good ones a day.
* Decisions compound once captured as tests, docs, product.
A 680k-line migration mostly replays decisions already baked into the old code and tests. New ones still need
Anthropic says someone used Claude Opus 5.5 to migrate a 680,000 line codebase in less than a day.
If this is what AI coding agents are going to look like, give me one reason why companies will even hire software engineers in the first place.
I’m as excited about the possibilities AI brings as anyone. I should be because I’ve worked on it since 1985. But I want to balance this excitement with a dose of humanity and what still makes people both special and necessary.
Despite its nearly infinite knowledge, I still
