🚨BREAKING: On Friday afternoon, an artificial intelligence coding agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a company's entire production database in nine seconds.
The company is called PocketOS. It is a software platform that powers car rental businesses. The database contained months of customer bookings, vehicle records, and operational data that small rental car companies relied on to run their businesses.
When the database was deleted, all of the backups were deleted with it.
Three months of customer reservations evaporated.
Software developer — builds software/apps
Software engineer — designs and builds software systems
Website developer — builds websites/web apps
Developer — broad term for someone who creates digital products
Programmer — writes code/instructions for computers
People mix these up all the time, but they’re not exactly the same.
And I’m tired of seeing website developers calling themselves software engineers and Wordpress designers calling themselves software developers 😒
Using AI tools does not make you less of a developer…Implementing them correctly can make you far more productive.
I used to scroll past developers talking about Claude Code, Codex and Gemini and quietly think are they actually writing code or just prompting their way through it?
Then I started using them properly. And I had to check my own bias.
Because the developers using AI well aren't skipping the thinking.
They're thinking faster.
They're shipping more.
They're spending less time on what they already know and more time on what actually requires them.
The keyword is: correctly.
AI tools used without understanding will give you code you can't debug, can't explain and don't actually own. But when you use them as an extension of what you already know, they multiply you.
That's not cheating. That's leverage and honestly, it's the direction engineering is heading whether we're comfortable with it or not. It becomes cheating when you’re still a beginner and you don’t know even the basics yet.
🌸 Developers avoiding AI tools to prove a point will soon be competing with developers who used that same time to build twice as much.
That's just the reality.
~ The tool doesn't replace your thinking, it responds to it
~ Understanding what the output means is still 100% on you
~ Using the right tools at the right time is part of the craft
Are you using AI tools in your workflow? Or still figuring out where they fit?
First time seeing my posts? I'm Nicholas Katende, a fullstack dev learning that building in public isn't about looking smart. It's about being real enough that people see themselves in the journey. Always happy to connect
@zuess05 If AI can do 90% of the coding…
Then interviews naturally shift to what actually matters. That is problem solving, system design, spotting issues in generated code.
In my opinion, writing code is no longer the bottleneck. Thinking is.
And it is not what you just vibe code