Engineers Who Focus on Impact Over Craft in AI Era

Struggling engineers identify with the craft. Thriving engineers identify more with the impact. - on SWEs in the era of vibecoding: "At my brother's company, he mandated his team: everyone’s using Claude Code, everyone needs to do prompting, and you need to generate your code." "Around 50% of his team got really demotivated. One engineer quit and told him, 'I do not want to be a prompter, I love the craft.'" "For that engineer, code was his identity. He was the go-to guy and understood the codebase better than anyone. People used to go up to him asking, 'Hey, how does this work, etc.?' Now, no one walks up to him because the AI can answer it." "Builders who don't care about the tools that much are going to thrive. For people who care about the craft, there might be niches, but it'll be harder."