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![And then we get to the fact that building stuff with Claude Code is not that straightforward. Every example you've read about somebody being amazed by it has built a toy app or website that's very similar to many open source projects or website templates that Anthropic trained its training data on. Every single piece of SaaS anyone pays for is paying for both access to the product and a transfer of the inherent risk or chaos of running software that involves people or money. Claude Code does not actually build unique software. You can say "create me a CRM," but whatever CRM it pops out will not magically jump onto Amazon Web Services, nor will it magically be efficient, or functional, or compliant, nor will it be differentiated at all from, I assume, the open source or publicly-available SaaS it was trained on. You really still need engineers, if not more of them than you had before.
It might tell you it's completely compliant and that it will run like a hot knife through butter - it doesn't know anything, and you cannot be sure as a result. Is your argument that you’d still have a team of engineers (so they know what the outputs mean), but they’d be working on replacing your SaaS subscription? You’re basically becoming a startup with none of the benefits.
To quote Nik Suresh, an incredibly well-credentialed and respected software engineer (author of I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again), “...for some engineers, [Claude Code] is a great way to solve certain, tedious problems more quickly, and the responsible ones understand you have to read most of the output, which takes an appreciable fraction of the time it would take to write the code in many cases. Claude doesn't write terrible code all the time, it's actually good for many cases because many cases are boring. You just have to read all of it if you aren't a fucking moron because it periodically makes company-ending decisions.”
Just so you know, “company-ending decisions” could start with you…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreiftx3pylenebodvmghirjbr3sbwj2r74ulp6h3bmrp736334wtkqq)
