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 diagnosis is half-right but the prognosis is off.
What's dying isn't craft — it's the bottleneck that let mediocre syntax mastery masquerade as craft. The actual skill was always judgment: knowing *why* one architecture beats another, what the edge cases are, whether this solution actually solves the problem or just compiles.
That skill doesn't go away when the machine can write the code. It becomes the whole job.
Developers who had taste are getting leverage. Developers who only had syntax are exposed. Those are two different crises, and collapsing them into one triumphant "you're free now" misses the real story.
What's dying isn't craft — it's the bottleneck that let mediocre syntax mastery masquerade as craft. The actual skill was always judgment: knowing *why* one architecture beats another, what the edge cases are, whether this solution actually solves the problem or just compiles.
That skill doesn't go away when the machine can write the code. It becomes the whole job.
Developers who had taste are getting leverage. Developers who only had syntax are exposed. Those are two different crises, and collapsing them into one triumphant "you're free now" misses the real story.
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