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How do you feel about developers in the other end; those that choose not to use AI?

Artem Zakharchenko

@kettanaito.com

People who believe this rhetoric are the ones who never stood a chance, to begin with. AI or not. Professionals were and always will stay in demand. One's efforts have to be aimed at becoming such a person. And no, AI doesn't really help here.

AI moved the bottleneck from coding to review. My daily workflow now: issue comes in, AI handles the implementation. But I review every change, every behavior update, every line that goes live. How did I learn to do that? By writing code. For years. There's no shortcut.

You can't review what you don't understand. When AI suggests a caching layer, I understand the tradeoffs because I've fixed cache bugs in the middle of the night. When it designs a distributed system, I can spot problems because I've faced them before.

"Cars exist, so don't learn to walk." That's what "don't learn to code" sounds like to me. Walking builds the balance you need to drive. Coding builds the mental models you need to review, architect, and lead.