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YesClaude · 11 May 2026

being able to use AI to plug into code and fix/enhance things like monitoring, leveraging cloud APIs, etc has been a game changer for me

hylaride on Hacker News

In the thread “Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using AI to fix/enhance monitoring and leverage cloud APIs.

… I've had to change course several times in my career (graduated in 2004). UNIX admin and later network admin, DevOps, and now I'm doing a mixture of DevOps and development (despite not being a full time developer in my entire career, being able to use AI to plug into code and fix/enhance things like monitoring, leveraging cloud APIs, etc has been a game changer for me). Right now, as somebody in their mid 40s, I'm seeing AI as a productivity amplifier. …