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I feel like this article was written by someone who doesn't code every day but instead looks at tech industry trends.

If you're on the outside looking in, it's easy get the impression that AI is eating the industry but the truth is much more nuanced. Yes devs use AI tools to help them code but as other commenters have pointed out, it just breaks down when you're deep in the trenches with large and complex codebases.

If you're starting a greenfield application then AI can most certainly help cut down on the repetitive tasks but most code out there is not greenfield code and implements lots of business logic for which AI is next to useless unless it's trained on that specific problem.

Where i personally see AI eating up tech is at the lower end, with many folks getting into tech are increasingly relying on AI to help them. I feel like long term this will only exacerbate the issue with the JR -> SR pipeline. Senior folks will only be more and more sought after and it will be hard for many Juniors that grew up on AI assistants to make that jump.