it feels in some ways that that experience makes using claude code a lot more productive than for my non-architect colleagues
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Helped: Architect experience allows effective steering via sessions and custom skills.
Got in the way: Manager expectations are inflated with unrealistic AI-generated statistics.
I feel the same way, I have many years of experience, and I have gone from writing everything by hand to using claude code all the time (my latest company is very pro doing everything with AI). Since I have been a software architect for the past 7-8 years it feels in some ways that that experience makes using claude code a lot more productive than for my non-architect colleagues, as I am able to steer it much more effectively whether directly in sessions or via custom skills / mcp. The big issues right now for me are hiring and manager expectations, I changed positions last fall due to mass layoffs and it took me 3 months to find one: having leetcode interviews in the current climate seems completely useless, even more than it …