A former founder visits a 15-person shop where Claude writes, explains, and reviews code—and asks where the programmer profession is heading

Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?

After shutting down his 3-person software company, the author spent time at a friend's 15-person shop and found a workflow he calls shocking: code is no longer the source of truth—Claude writes and explains it; code review is not done by humans; deep problem understanding is offloaded to Claude; some devs run 5+ concurrent Claude sessions without looking at code; LLM-generated tests are exploding. He asks whether this is representative and, if so, whether software development is shifting from a precise occupation to something probabilistic with offloaded understanding—maybe not an occupation at all. Commenters push back: LLMs still produce laughably wrong output, and betting a company on them is risky. Others say the hand-crafted code era is over and supervising agents is today's norm. The post provides no industry-wide data, only one person's observation and HN discussion.

Why it matters: A firsthand field report with concrete scenes, not armchair commentary — hits all three HKR axes. Score held at 72 because it's a single anecdotal Ask HN post with no data backing, and the topic isn't new.