Comment "Everybody wants the glory work" (Score 1) 150
Quoting an old construction work boss... We have a small team of great developers. Core software is highly critical, and highly optimized, and with lots of ip that we don't want to share with a raft of junior developers trying to build a resume. But, there's a lot of stuff on the periphery that is important, but not as latency or reliability sensitive. A lot of those peripheral tasks were hard to get someone to bite on, or weren't deemed worth taking someone off something else, but now are getting picked off by Claude.
I think this is the way in. Everyone is getting up to speed with the tools, but on cases they aren't too worried about. As confidence grows, the ai use will increase and gradually move into the more difficult and critical code. But, for now, tackling the work that no one wanted to bother with is allowing the team to get up to speed and get used to using ai. It's only growing from here. It's not the "glory work" yet, but will likely get there.
I think this is the way in. Everyone is getting up to speed with the tools, but on cases they aren't too worried about. As confidence grows, the ai use will increase and gradually move into the more difficult and critical code. But, for now, tackling the work that no one wanted to bother with is allowing the team to get up to speed and get used to using ai. It's only growing from here. It's not the "glory work" yet, but will likely get there.