I've been able to do things that I would not have the competence for otherwise, as I do not have a formal software engineering background and my main expertise is writing python data processing scripts.
E.g., yesterday I fixed a bug [2] by having Claude compare the CarPlay and iOS search implementations. It did at first suggest another code change than the one that fixed it, but that felt just like a normal part of debugging (you may need to try different things)
Most of my contributions [3] have been enabled by Claude, and it's also been critical to identify where the code for certain things are located - it's a very powerful search in the code base
And it is just amazing if you need to write a simple python script to do something, e.g., in [4]
Now this would obviously not be possible if everyone used AI tools and no one knew the existing code base, so the future for real engineers and architects is bright!
[1] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps [2] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/pulls/1792 [3] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/pulls?state=all&type=all&... [4] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/pulls/1782