[barrkel]

I've been coding since 1990 myself. But I'm all in on AI.

I'm long past the need to code everything by hand; I've written editors, compilers, DOS TSR routines in assembler, disassemblers, debuggers, all sorts. I don't see any coding mountains remaining that I have a burning desire to climb. When I interact with an agent, I'm concerned about architectural nudges and fairly high-level details. And I anticipate climbing further up the abstraction stack over time.

Product management is increasingly vital; it's becoming very, very easy to implement the wrong thing, and you need to rip it out again. Editorial discipline is needed.

[pjmlp]

What I see where I am standing is that many don't code anything more, they get shown the door instead.

Because between SaaS, iPaas, Vercel, Nelify, Workato, Boomi, automatic translations, content generation, among many other tools, the team can be reduced to one third of the size it was like a decade ago, for the same content delivery.

Still, many of those tools have IDE integrations for the lucky ones that stay on board.