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I Don't Write Any of My Code. The Project Is 1,873,324 Lines.
I'm a senior AI engineer. My project is nearly two million lines of code: 1,873,324 lines of TypeScript, Rust, and Python, source only. Before AI I spent maybe twenty hours a week on NexusTrade. Now I spend sixty, seventy, eighty, even a hundred hours a week generating and developing the code. I do not write it by hand. The only exception is interview practice.
I also do not read most of it. The paths I still read are the ones that move real money: submitting orders, Stripe payments, anything that can spend. If I read every line I would not ship. Prompt engineering is the same: I built an MCP server, connected it to Claude Code, and Claude Code writes, edits, and adds few-shot examples. Testing, UI tests, and CI/CD are automated the same way. My job is the thinking and the architecture. I know the system well enough to catch it when the model says something crazy. Other than that, AI is doing the work.
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0:00I'm a senior AI engineer and my project is nearly two million lines of code.
0:07Before the days of AI I probably worked on NexusTrade maybe twenty hours per week.
0:15And as AI has become more popular I'm spending sixty, seventy, eighty, even a hundred hours every week generating or developing engineering code.
0:29Here are the things I've automated with AI.
0:32Number one: it comes to just writing the code.
0:36I don't write any code by hand.
0:38I mean not at all.
0:40The only exception is that I'm trying to practice the code before an interview.
0:45Number two: reading the code.
0:48Unless I am changing things in critical paths, things like submitting orders, payments with Stripe, things that affect real money, I'm not reading that code.
1:00I'm just not doing it.
1:02If I read every line of code I just wouldn't get things done.
1:05So if you use NexusTrade, if you've checked it out, there is code in that repo that I have not read.
1:12If you don't like it, don't use it.
1:15It's just the truth.
1:16Number three is my prompt engineering.
1:19I don't read or write my language model prompts at all.
1:24I created an MCP server, connected it to Claude Code, and Claude Code is reading, writing, editing, adding few-shot examples.
1:34It's doing all of that.
1:35I'm not doing it at all.
1:38Other things like testing, UI tests, CI/CD, everything is being automated by AI.
1:46So the only thing I'm doing is my thinking.
1:48I'm not an ideas guy.
1:50I have ideas of what I want the software to do.
1:53That's really it.
1:55That's my role.
1:56And I also have a really strong understanding of the system architecture, so I can nudge AI in the right direction if it says something crazy.
2:06Other than that, AI is doing all the work.
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