Young senior engineers no longer know what a thread is: brains are being 'Clauded'
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-09-21
Developer yuntatsai reports meeting young senior software engineers who no longer know what a thread is — some thought he meant Meta's Threads. He argues their brains are being "Clauded" by AI coding assistants. His take: some coding is boring enough to skip, but good engineers still need to understand design choices, or they risk becoming "meat proxies for prompts."
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