A month ago I signed up for a month of Claude Pro from Anthropic, at the urging from my friends who also code for a living. They were adamant that Sonnet 4.5 was a game changer for software development. I was skeptical, because so many previous products in the LLM space were underwhelming when it came to code. I will likely sign up for another month of Claude Pro today. The ability of Claude Code to write code that I approve of is nothing short of shocking. As long as you can give it a good technical analysis and design to work from it will generate code that is correct and maintainable. It is a competent junior engineer that still requires lots of guidance and review, but never gets bored, distracted, annoyed, or tired. It has seemingly infinite knowledge about all things technology (but requires a human to apply wisdom).
It took only a month for me to realize that my future as a software engineer is no longer writing code by hand.