
Why Claude Won’t Replace Your Engineering Team (Yet)
You’ve probably seen a few founders on X and LinkedIn who confidently say the same thing: “We don’t need engineers anymore because AI has replaced them.” Claude’s shiny new $100–$200 “Max” tiers promise giant context windows, endless chat sessions, and the fantasy of running a startup without a single human developer. It sounds seductive: why hire a team when you can just dump your entire codebase into an AI, crank out features, and move on? But here’s the truth: this is wishful thinking.