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A developer reflects on the 'coding is dead' narrative dominating 2026, arguing it's overstated. While AI tools can generate boilerplate and simple features rapidly, they fall short on production-grade concerns like security, debugging, and accountability. High-profile AI demos (like Claude building a C compiler) turned out to require significant human scaffolding. The real shift is that entry-level repetitive work is being automated, but the skills that matter most — reviewing AI output, catching logic gaps, understanding system consequences — are becoming more valuable, not less. The conclusion: developers aren't being replaced, they're being repositioned as supervisors of AI.

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Lonely Programmer

This is irrelevant since models of the future will very soon be better than the best programmer. advancement is non-linear and will be constant. no wall. that’s what I currently see and predict, so the vast number of programmers will not be required and the shift will be towards people with ideas that would simply boss the AI and will get a very good-quality output.

Best explanation on how to handle it so far! Claude Code is your personal junior dev :D

100% agree. But I’m willing to bet all the tech-bro-turbo-growth CEOs won’t.