How AI is changing my job as a Staff Engineer: Tracer bullets (opens in new tab)

AI is rapidly changing software engineering, and with any kind of technological evolution, we need to sort the wheat from the chaff. On one side, Claude Code’s creator Boris Cherny says that “coding is largely solved”. On the other, devs like Mario Zechner argue that real software will always require human judgment, restraint and sustainable pace. Amid all the signal and noise, there’s you and me: engineers who heavily use AI in their day-to-day, but aren’t swept up in the frenzy. Thanks for ...