Hi everyone! Boris from the Claude Code team here. @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr and I will be around for the next hour or so and we'll do our best to answer your questions about the product.
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You still need to know what good code looks like to use these tools. If you go forward in your career trusting the output of LLMs without the skills to evaluate the correctness, style, functionality of that code then you will have problems.
People still write low level machine code today, despite compilers having existed for 70+ (?) years.
We'll always need full-stack humans who understand everything down to the electrons even in the age of insane automation that we're entering.
But I can’t imagine this tool in the hands of someone who does not have a solid understanding of programming.
You need to understand when to push back and why. It’s like doing mini code reviews all the time. LLMs are very convincing and will happily generate garbage with the utmost authority.
Don’t trust and absolutely verify.