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We don’t write code anymore. It’s all AI generated.
The job is figuring out the design, agreeing with other teams on that design and contracts between your components, and then telling AI to do all the work. Even if you have bugs or maintenance, you just prompt AI to fix it. You can also have AI write all your tests.
You wanted an honest answer, that’s it.
Others will be cranky about it and downvote me.
How do you deal with the lack of understanding of the codebase? The company thinks they pay programmers to write code, but in my experience they actually are paying for someone to understand the whole thing. When something goes wrong in production do you just ask AI to identify the problem?
In my company, the C level is pushing hard for AI adoption so everyone is expected to use AI to write code.
Basically, yes. I am no longer programmer but more like software architect or manager. Architecting the design and reviewing AI plan and code.