Expertise in the age of AI, or: Matt's Claude'll handle this (opens in new tab)

One of our team leads has been working on a major feature using Claude Code. He's been at it for a few days and is nearly done. To put that in context: this feature would normally represent about a month of a senior developer's time.He did the backend work himself — working with Claude to build it out, applying his knowledge of how the system should behave, reviewing, adjusting, and iterating. He handled only the backend, and when I asked him about the frontend, he said: "I'm going to let Mat...