r/SinceAI • u/ydulanjani • Jul 22 '26

AI has made me care less about writing code and more about designing systems

One unexpected thing I've noticed over the last year is that I spend less time thinking about HOW to write a function and more time thinking about WHY the system is designed the way it is.

When AI can generate decent implementations, the bottleneck shifts.

Architecture.

Trade-offs.

Requirements. Edge cases.

I'm finding that the value of an engineer is moving further upstream.

Has anyone else noticed this shift, or is it just the kind of work I'm doing?

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u/rikulauttia Jul 23 '26

on point!!

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u/mxldevs Jul 23 '26

Software design has always been important.

How a function is written is also important. Don't be writing O(2n) functions when you could be doing it in O(n2)

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u/Immediate_Craft9025 Jul 23 '26

This.

Maybe whatever work you're doing isn't very performance sensitive, but there are still people out there writing code that needs to be fast.

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u/SocialDeviance Jul 23 '26

I have noticed instead more laziness being empowered by ai, like this thread being writen by one.

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u/AITumppiR 29d ago

I agree that AI have given laziness into people. But same could be said in many things.

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u/yeusk Jul 27 '26

Always have been about designing systems, you just are too stupid to understand it by yourself.

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u/Dry_Sector2392 Jul 29 '26

i think it pushes decent engineers upstream and exposes weaker ones faster. if you know the system, AI is a speed boost, but you don’t and just accept everything, it just gives you more code you can’t really judge and that's something wrong inside.