Alex Khrustalov on Early-stage startup engineering

> In the last 2 years alone, software engineering changed more drastically than in the prior 20 years. I actually disagree, the practice of software engineering didn't change at all. It is the same old process of: 1. understanding what needs to be done 2. reading the existing codebase 3. altering it, or producing new relevant code 4. testing, debugging, deploying And only the 3rd step is where Claude and other tools are making any visible progress. Yes, it makes productive developers with solid background even more productive. Anyone else doesn't benefit much.