Developers Don't Write Code Anymore — In the AI Era, What Remains Is Responsibility
Developers Don't Write Code Anymore — In the AI Era, What Remains Is Responsibility I hear it a lot lately — that AI is going to make developers obsolete. Engineers who use AI every day seem to feel it the most. When you watch AI write your code day after day, you start wondering how long this will last. The story used to be that only juniors would get replaced. Now senior engineers are getting lumped into the same sentence. A friend told me recently he's thinking about switching careers. He's been coding for over thirty years, and these days he watches AI crank out in a few hours what he'd budget a week for. "Will the skills I'm building right now still matter in three years?" he asked. Another friend said the opposite — he looks at colleagues who barely use AI and wonders what they're even doing. Same moment in history, two completely different anxieties. I get both. But I think the premise underneath this anxiety is wrong. Half right, half wron...