Building a Mac app with Claude code

Two years ago, I saw myself as a really good Python engineer. Now I'm building native mobile apps, desktop apps that talk to Slack, APIs in Go, and full web apps in React, in hours or days!

It feels like I've got superpowers. I love it. I feel productive, fast, creative. But at night, there's this strange feeling of sadness. My profession, my passion, all the things I worked so hard to learn, all the time and sacrifices, a machine can now do most of it. And the companies building these tools are just getting started.

What does this mean for the next generation of engineers? Where's it all heading? Do you feel the same?

I’m sure the handicrafts laborers prior to the industrial revolution felt the same way.

However, they also likely had little education, 1-2 of their children probably died of trivial illnesses before the age of 10, and they lived without electricity, indoor plumbing, running water or refrigeration.

Yes, blacksmithing your own tools is romantic (just as hand writing python code), but somehow I’m guessing our ancestors will be better off living at higher layers of abstraction. Nobody will stop them from writing python code themselves, and I’m sure they’ll do it as a fun hobby like blacksmithing is today.