Claude Accelerates Developers. It Doesn’t Replace Them
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Claude is genuinely impressive, but it doesn’t remove the need to understand programming fundamentals. You still need to know how systems connect, where data lives, how state is managed, what environments are (dev vs staging vs production), how deployments work, and how things actually run (& fail) in the real world.
For developers, Claude is an incredible accelerator. For non-programmers, it can feel magical at first, but at some point, real engineering knowledge becomes unavoidable.
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A dev who has a long history of building product but maybe hasn't kept up with the latest updates can get a massive boost from CC. I've personally "written" so much code in the past 6 months by using CC to write the logic and then have an "eyes-on" review from myself to find glaring issues or to help debug with CC support. I've been a web dev since 1995 and would consider myself a mid-level dev. With CC, I can get the best of Laravel/PostgreSQL/IaaS/PaaS today while CC helps me gain knowledge through use.
100% agree with this take. Claude makes building things so easy that you actually need to understand fundamentals MORE, not less. When it generates complex features in seconds, you better understand how those pieces actually work together, or you're just shipping fancy problems to real users faster. The speed is real—I build features in days that used to take weeks—but when things break (and they will), that's when gaps in understanding become painfully obvious.