AI Didn’t Make Developer Work Easier. It Removed the Easy Parts
There is an old joke that every developer knows in their bones. A non-technical person asks for a small change, “can you just add a button that emails the report,” and six days later you are still untangling why the report generation blocks the request thread under load. Nothing is ever simple for developers. The simple-sounding thing always has a system behind it.
AI was supposed to fix this. In a way, it did. And that is exactly why your days feel harder than they used to.
The floor got automated
Here is what actually happened. There was always a spectrum of work on your plate. At the bottom, genuinely simple things: boilerplate, standard CRUD, wiring up a form, the fiftieth variation of a pattern you have written a hundred times. In the middle, the moderately fiddly. At the top, the genuinely hard: the concurrency bug, the system design call,...
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