Aditya Agarwal, a veteran of Silicon Valley and former CTO of Dropbox and director of Flipkart, has shared a raw reflection on the existential shift caused by AI. As a veteran engineer who helped build the initial search engine at Facebook, Agarwal described feeling a mix of ‘wonder and profound sadness’ after intensive coding sessions with Claude.
His experience suggests that the era of manual, hand-written code is effectively over, as AI transforms the craft he spent years mastering into a free and abundant commodity.
In a post on X, he said,…
