Boris created Claude Code. His point here is important - when AI handles the code generation, the engineer's value shifts to the decisions above the code:
1. what do we build?
2. why? for whom?
3. and how it all fits together.
The bottleneck was always judgment, taste, and systems thinking. AI just made that more obvious.
Someone has to prompt the Claudes, talk to customers, coordinate with other teams, decide what to build next. Engineering is changing and great engineers are more important than ever.