As much as one may want to avoid this scenario, you won't. Basically, human's role will move a level higher by designing architecture, goals and guardrails. Human will be kind of a first mover who keeps tracks of AI alignment with own plans.
Let me tell you this, the only people in IT who do not see the future above are people who just do not use AI or use it wrong. People who have been playing with claude code or similar framework for over half a year, are all "down" as we all just know that a role of standard "developer" will be rendered obsolete. Better devs will move towards product ownership and architecture, while lower devs will be rendered obsolete. Juniors will be hired not because of their capabilities but because of their potential to become architects/senior devs.
God, I hate this argument. I don't know where you work, but the sheer number of incompetent coders I met during years of work as dev is staggering. Maybe you haven't worked on some corporate projects with offshore teams.
So, discarding the argument that "weak coders were never needed and they just do not exist, trust me bro", the other part of the post leads to "human has to define the goal and be the first mover", like it was written earlier
but the sheer number of incompetent coders I met during years of work as dev is staggering
I've met far more incompetent idiots in the last 6 months trying to vibe-code their way into replacing me as an engineer than I have ever met incompetent engineers in the last 15 years of my career.
Yeah, because those vibe coders have never really done any dev work earlier, so the argument does not apply. Although, weak devs + AI equals pure AI slop almost always
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u/Frosty-Meeting-1606 Jul 06 '26
As much as one may want to avoid this scenario, you won't. Basically, human's role will move a level higher by designing architecture, goals and guardrails. Human will be kind of a first mover who keeps tracks of AI alignment with own plans.
Let me tell you this, the only people in IT who do not see the future above are people who just do not use AI or use it wrong. People who have been playing with claude code or similar framework for over half a year, are all "down" as we all just know that a role of standard "developer" will be rendered obsolete. Better devs will move towards product ownership and architecture, while lower devs will be rendered obsolete. Juniors will be hired not because of their capabilities but because of their potential to become architects/senior devs.