Sous les briques, le soleil

Two moments this week stopped me cold.

One of our engineers watched Cursor write code for a new component through an MCP connection to Figma. “5 days of work in 10 minutes.” I thought about all the hours I’ve spent in my career slicing PSDs, integrating designs pixel by pixel. Gone.

Then I revamped an entire Rails app in minutes. The database schema was already there. I wasn’t ready for this.

This is days after Claude 3.7 Sonnet dropped. Here’s what I think happens next:

1. Smaller teams. Software companies will need fewer developers. I’m already seeing it in my own teams.

2. More code, more complexity. LLMs will produce mountains of code. Maintenance becomes harder. Compute demand explodes. For future reference: $AMD at $96.76 today.

3. Vibe coding. Younger devs won’t debug—they’ll regenerate. Bug in a module? Rewrite the whole thing.

4. Juniors squeezed out. Entry-level positions shrink. Unless you have strong fundamentals, AI does your job cheaper.

5. Juniors become founders. With smaller teams needed, solo engineers can ship real products. The barrier is gone.

The future is product-led. Engineering teams get smaller and faster. Product people face fewer constraints.

One thing I’m watching: data migrations. LLMs write code well. But altering production schemas without breaking things? That’s still where experience matters.