AI can read and write code, but context and architecture still belong to humans.

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Agentic AI excels at deterministic coding tasks like writing, refactoring, and validating code, but lacks the strategic context and human interpretation needed for real engineering work. AI operates within fixed parameters and cannot adapt to shifting business priorities, customer needs, or strategic realignments that arrive through fragmented human communication. The future lies not in replacing developers but in AI handling mechanical tasks while humans focus on interpretation, strategy, and building with intent. For AI to become a true collaborator, it must understand evolving context—not just what code does, but whether it still matters given current priorities.

AI is not coming for your developer job

How certain are you that AI has deterministic behaviour. Even if you implement rule-based agents and workflows with fixed decision paths - there is always some **Nondeterministic **behaviour thanks to context compaction, pollution or poisioning and various other factors ai agent has to be trained for. After certain point of implementing rules and decision paths, it becomes no different than typical software engineering.

For now, sure, but it will improve in that regard too eventually.
One point I don’t see mentioned often is accountability. An AI cannot take responsibility for its actions, and if your favorite AI happens to cause you millions of dollars in damages in the case of a botched deploy, the AI company most certainly won’t be liable in any way, as they always legally protect themselves from those with fair warnings.

It is coming for the Dev jobs (including yours and mine) and majority of the desk jobs as well.
I never understand the narrative of targeting only dev jobs with AI, as anyone can see if an AI can do a dev job, then it can certainly do most of the other desk jobs.
What I am more concerned about is loss of jobs on that scale and its implications. How a society and an economy is going to survive with unemployment, chaos and crimes that comes later?

Is AI coming for all dev jobs, no of course it isn’t, but if your company can suddenly do 20-30% more work they can get away with a smaller team. If this happens everywhere suddenly theres 20% less jobs, the only thing that can actually save this is if demand for services increases but it’s not clear if that will happen