And there was an observation that the software enginering's maker's schedule is mutating towards a managerial type of schedule, where large focus blocks are being replaced with more context switching .
Boris mentioned that coding is becoming accesible to everyone, and gave an example of a manager that he works with, who now produces code several times every week, after 10 years without coding.
On the other hand, he did mention that he likes to code on the weekend due to its quiet time, ergo focus blocks.
I myself have also been noticed a personal trend where I tend to write prompt or plans to get my agents going in the interludes between meetings and chats, and eventually reach the end of the day with ready made code. I still require bouts of focus time to think hard about problems, but they seem to be slowly decreasing in amount of hours. Regardless, I dont think focus time blocks will go away for good.
My questions to you are:
- Do you also see this pattern emerging?
- Do you think software engineering and managarial roles are slowly merging and the value traditional software engineering is decreasing?
- Are above advices overindexed on Claude Code, because Boris created it?