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If Claude Code can handle all programming tasks, even when used by mediocre programmers, why are senior programmers still being hired with decent salaries?

It might be that real company projects (not small startups) are gigantic, and a junior, even with Claude Code, cannot navigate their way through a big project due to their own knowledge limitations, as well as AI context window constraints.

What you have been messing with are usually small, startup-level prototypes. That’s why you’ve been able to navigate your way through them with Claude Code.

if you’re a junior, try messing with these repositories using your strongest AI agent, and add changes to it or introduce foundational edits, and tell me if you feel comfortable shipping these edits, assuming that just 1,000 users will use the app afterward.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

https://github.com/saleor/saleor

https://github.com/spree/spree

https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back

If Claude Code can handle all programming tasks, even when used by mediocre programmers, why are senior programmers still being hired with decent salaries?

It might be that real company projects (not small startups) are gigantic, and a junior, even with Claude Code, cannot navigate their way through a big project due to their own knowledge limitations, as well as AI context window constraints.

What you have been messing with are usually small, startup-level prototypes. That’s why you’ve been able to navigate your way through them with Claude Code.

if you’re a junior, try messing with these repositories using your strongest AI agent, and add changes to it or introduce foundational edits, and tell me if you feel comfortable shipping these edits, assuming that just 1,000 users will use the app afterward.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

https://github.com/saleor/saleor

https://github.com/spree/spree

https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back