Claude is dangerously good – feeling irrelevant & useless

[Chetan]

I'm a senior software engineer with 5 years of experience, using Claude Max right now, and it seems to be doing a better job than I can. Will web developers become extinct? What should I do to stay relevant? Please help.

[Raj]

Start farming: learn backend, cloud and DevOps.

[Hema]

Learn new things, understand how agents work, or try different approaches – there's a lot of innovation happening in tech right now.

[Sneha]

Switch your tech stack to a Farmland Developer approach.

[Akbar]

If you're going to be a fear‑mongerer, at least be creative.

[Charu]

I've been using it for the last 5 months. It's helpful when you're starting a project, but eventually you need to provide the logic and plan – otherwise it makes things worse.

[Rani]

Same here – I had a task estimated at 5 days, pasted the requirements and it completed it in one go.

[Mohit]

Bro, I have 3 years of experience and my colleagues, at the same level, heavily use Claude. The code they produce is so garbage that I had to make a 5‑minute video yesterday explaining how bad it is. He apologized and said he'll improve. It was a working code in production, but look at this single line:

    setUserDetails((pre)=>{
        const obj = Object.assign(pre)
        obj.autoCredits = true
        return obj
    })

If you know React, you can see how dangerous this is.

[Simran]

All these LLMs and agents are like horses. They'll be faster and better than you, but they still need someone to ride, control and direct them. Learn how these agents work to get maximum productivity.

[Aarohi]

I've just bought a piece of land and will soon start my farm. I'm done.

[Sneha]

Reading the comments, it feels like nobody really knows anything (myself included) and people are just talking to sound smart. These are uncertain times, and it's okay not to know the future, I guess.