The OPs domain/subject matter expertise is the part that should elevate their career. Understanding how large applications are constructed should also remain a pillar.

The coding and debugging part will be GenAI and possibly guardrails (harness engineering) tuned specifically for fintech, which they are also well-suited to implement.

The second I realized it removed nearly all blockers as a bootstrapped technical startup founder.

Claude wiped out the need for web and mobile development resources. I bought a Mac-Mini and had iOS apps up and running in days.

The number of times those get grabbed of someone’s face and stomped on will be greater than zero. And businesses will have signs for No guns/spyglasses.

Capturing the faces of every small child at a playground, by a creeper who's just standing outside the fence, looking onto the inside...

Imagine that, this weekend. Brought to you by Meta Smart Glasses

Not when cops are wearing them. Cops with these that have the day's BOLO and warrant hotlist loaded on them will be the new hot ALPR.

Real tough guy hours

At what point does civil disobedience become justified? Expected even? Also let's be clear - this is not violence, not assault, it is simple destruction of property.

I don't think you could plausibly do this and only catch a property crime charge. If you're caught, forcefully removing worn objects from another person will almost certainly catch you a misdemeanor battery charge in most US jurisdictions.

I'm no lawyer and things vary by location, but clothing is generally considered an extension of the person and usually touching their worn objects constitutes physical contact with the person themselves. Doing so with intent of committing criminal mischief, vandalism, or felony property damage will get all of them thrown at you. If you hastily do so and happen to harm the person in the process (since you're naturally grabbing at someone's eyes, that seems like a serious risk), there's a good chance you'll be given an aggravated or felony battery charge instead.

If it’s a woman slapping them off a pervert and accidentally stepping on them, 100% walks no charges.

Mostly because perverts tend not to press charges when they're confronted, not because they wouldn't have legal standing. Also your scenario is clearly not what I was replying to about civil disobedience.

I’m not sure the message should be benchmarking.

The eye-opener is clean licensed data with filters for AI content (not sure how you do that).

If MSFT builds up using an ethical approach, there is a large anti-AI audience that might take note.

Yeah this is exactly what I was thinking.

I've been thinking about this since ChatGPT arrived.

My thoughts are distilled in a single page:

https://devarch.ai/trio-paradigm.html

I doubt we will ever need a large team to build software again. PMs will be fractional. Product owners and subject matter experts will become more valuable. And engineers that have deep experience with things like Domain-Driven Design will thrive and vibe coders will eventually be shut out of bigger roles.

> I doubt we will ever need a large team to build software again.

but that seems to contradict what you say here:

> vibe coders will eventually be shut out of bigger roles.

Isn't vibe coding driving that greater productivity and negating the need for large teams to build software?

Vibe coding is the chaos version of using GenAI. Seven agents in parallel and the dev refuses to believe this will just be a circle jerk of hallucinations.

Planned, architected problems led by experienced dev/arch’s will be where success is measured.

I'm the OP.

I started using ChatGPT and Claude, then Claude Code the second each tech stack became available. I iteratively cajoled as much productivity as I could from it. Until October 2025 I was adamantly against it as a real tool for complex software projects.

Then Opus 4 -> 4.5 arrived and as we all know, changed the world.

But during those earlier times with minuscule context windows and many hallucinations, I still extracted evidence of what could be accomplished. I stored over a thousand work summaries from several projects and then in January 2026 I worked with Claude Code to build DevArch on the principles it could discern from those work summaries. Obviously I corralled Claude into developing a set of guardrails that I felt encapsulated what I describe as productive architecture and software engineering from a continuous improvement stance.

DevArch is now at 4.0 and installs on any Mac, Linux, or WSL OS. There's a 14-day free trial so you can download it and see for yourself.

If you're serious about being productive and generating high quality code, then I believe DevArch is a great asset to your toolkit.

If you're a strong Claude Code/GenAI dev, then you're probably not my target market. If you're a dev that finds themselves constantly re-prompting the same things over and over, discovering empty unit tests, fake methods, hours of wrong direction work....then you are my target audience.

And "my workflow" isn't a workflow. It really allows you to work however you want...with DevArch watching everything and injecting questions when it senses you're straying from your mission. And it will push you to wrap up, commit and push, clear the deck, then recap and repeat.

Nice idea, but engineers are engineers for a reason.

I’d suggest that the domain expert partner with a GenAI senior engineer to build together. In fact I believe this is the new dev team model. Domain Expert + Senior Engineer + QA. Not sure we still need a project manager anymore and we certainly don’t need scrum masters.

I have five Gen-Z kids that are pushing back on GenAI hard and they claim their peers are getting angry about how it’s impacted their lives.

As a technologist I tend to lean into new things rapidly because that’s how I’ve survived in IT for so long. Since I’m not ready to retire I still have a vested interest in staying informed.

But the OP has definitely identified a psychological issue I think we’re all going through.

I’ve started pumping the brakes on Claude usage. Before I would invent a target to work on. Now I’m filtering existing tasks to needs and not spending nearly as much time in Claude.

I’d bet this is being felt by the AI companies and the correction we’ve been talking about is nearing.

GenAI is great as a tool. But it can’t be everything.

My oldest is on the tail end of Gen-Z and is vehemently anti-AI. This isn't a position I've been vocal about, she just kind of expressed her disdain for it one day.

I've been in IT a while, and am more of an AI skeptic - but I'm OK with it being used as a tool where it makes sense in my field, and it certainly has some value.... but shoehorning it into everything and using it as a general replacement for human creativity is a no-go for me.

It's a relief to know GenZ is feeling this way, and I hope having an entire generation against it will help pump the brakes a bit.

It makes sense. GenZ and younger have the most to lose from AI. Corporate America is absolutely giddy about its promise to make 50+% of white collar jobs redundant. I'd have a very negative view about it too, if I were just graduating college and looking for an entry-level office job.

Are you a software developer?

I think this issue gets more difficult for software developers. AI is especially good at software development.

You have to make a very strong business case to NOT be using AI. I hate it, but its the reality and the world we live in. Adopt, or be left behind.

I do mostly cloud modernization architecture work and use Claude Code daily. But even I’m burning out on it. Not sure if that’s my current job, GenAI, or that I’d rather be playing poker.