Yes, we still need engineers

Prototyping has done wonders for speeding up software delivery. I start with a clone of our UI repository and open Claude Code. I'll prompt it to help me add a button (or whatever), set up some test data, and record a demo of a full workflow. It looks great in a Loom video! But it's far from production-ready. We still need: Backend support Regression testing Functional testing Security testing Performance testing Scalability considerations Edge case considerations Architectural considerations Accessibility requirements Design system considerations Maintainability considerations User permissions considerations That's just off the top of my head! What about: Lots more stuff Logging, metrics, and tracing Monitoring and alerting (how do you find out it broke before users do?) Error handling and graceful degradation CI/CD pipeline, deployment, and rollback strategy Feature flags Infrastructure provisioning, config management, and secrets handling Rate limiting and abuse prevention Retry…