Coding in the Age of AI Is Not What You Think
On 6 May, a post appeared on Dev.to carrying a title that functions less like a headline and more like a quiet provocation: "Coding in the Age of AI Is Not What You Think." It did not argue that AI has made programming obsolete, nor did it join the chorus insisting that anyone can now build software by typing requests into a chatbox. Instead, it staked out the harder, less comfortable position in the middle — that the work of coding has genuinely changed, that the change is real and deep, but that neither the doom-sayers nor the evangelists have described it accurately. One post, one score of 6.1 on the Dev.to signal tracker, one week old. The story is barely breathing yet. But the argument itself has been building pressure in developer communities for months, and someone finally tried to articulate it plainly.
If confirmed — if this framing gains traction and reflects how practitioners broadly experience their work — then the implications land on several groups at once. Hiring managers who reduced "coding ability" to prompt fluency will need to reckon with what they actually lost in the process. Bootcamps and CS programmes selling the promise of AI-assisted shortcuts will face students who arrive at their first job and discover the cognitive load has not decreased, it has redistributed into harder-to-teach places: judgment, taste, debugging instincts, the ability to verify outputs you did not write. The second-order effect is a credentialing problem — if the skill set has genuinely shifted in ways that resist easy measurement, the tools we use to assess developers are now measuring the wrong things. And companies that automated away senior engineers to save costs may find they have also automated away the interpretive layer that makes AI-generated code safe to ship.
Watch for whether this Dev.to post starts accumulating responses, citations, or counter-arguments from prominent voices in the developer community — that amplification would signal this is a live debate, not just one person's opinion on a Tuesday.
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