Reading Anthropic's "When AI Builds Itself" Changed How I Think About AI and Software Engineering
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Anthropic's essay reveals that over 80% of their production code is now written by Claude, with engineers shipping eight times more code than in 2024. But the real takeaway isn't about replacement — it's that AI accelerates execution while judgment, system thinking, and decision-making remain distinctly human skills that become more valuable as implementation gets cheaper and faster.
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