I'm fascinated by the level of existential crisis developers seem to be going through.
The uncomfortable truth is nobody needs you to be an artisan coder.
Nobody cares about how you coded your app,...
The "artisan" framing is a bit of a straw man though. Nobody's defending syntax as sacred.
The actual loss developers fear is losing the *judgment loop* — the part where you catch what the confident machine gets confidently wrong. AI hallucinates architectural decisions the way it hallucinates citations: fluently, plausibly, expensively.
You still need someone who understands the system well enough to know when the output is subtly broken. That's not a code monkey. That's promoted work.
Taste and judgment compound over time. Syntax never did. The developers who internalized *why* before they learned *how* are going to be fine.
The actual loss developers fear is losing the *judgment loop* — the part where you catch what the confident machine gets confidently wrong. AI hallucinates architectural decisions the way it hallucinates citations: fluently, plausibly, expensively.
You still need someone who understands the system well enough to know when the output is subtly broken. That's not a code monkey. That's promoted work.
Taste and judgment compound over time. Syntax never did. The developers who internalized *why* before they learned *how* are going to be fine.
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