Is AI taking programmer jobs

I’ve recently seen people impressed by Claude’s ability to create a functional React app with a simple prompt.

Cool? Very.

Useful? Perhaps.

The “app” was a simple widget with sliders to split a bill.

While impressive, the difference between widgets and production apps is massive.

The thing is …

I’ve been using Claude Sonnet 3.5 for the last few months, and I love the ability to create a project, upload context, and set a custom prompt to instruct it how to react, and have it persist across conversations.

As a large language model (LLM), it’s amazing at generating (code, text) from a prompt.

But if you want to use it to build something useful, you must know what you’re doing.

If you use it a lot, the articulated way it can express itself makes you think it’s got the smarts.

But after a while, you realize that it’s not intelligent.

It can’t make decisions.

If you take the same prompt and the same context and try multiple times, the results will deviate.

So yes, it’s an amazing tool.

But you need to know how to use it. It can make you faster, and it’s great for prototyping.

Just don’t expect it to be Jarvis from the Iron Man.

We’re still well off that mark.

Best regards,

Taj