no, AI hasn't made us all software engineers

the dunning kruger effect on ‘roids

having access to claude code does not make you a software engineer. any more than having a cordless circular saw makes one a carpenter. armed with claude code and any number of software AI tools, it’s now possible to create remarkably complex tools or sophisticated looking/sounding presentations and documents. i think this is, on balance, a good thing.

these artifacts can be incredibly useful. but they are not built to be sustainable and maintained outputs unless there’s the application of some real skill in their assembly. this is the engineering part.

i don’t know how we’re going to collectively weather this. i’m just writing this down for future me. i can’t be the only one seeing this. but currently, i’m just really hoping that the we some how manage to rectify our collective thinking here.