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William Hein
• Jul 22
I joined GitHub in 2015. At the time, I was just starting to figure out what it meant to build things. Back then, being a developer meant spending hours on Google and Stack Overflow, hunting for that one specific fix for a syntax error. It was a game of persistence. If you could make the code run, you won. Today, after six years of building for clients and navigating the industry, the landscape is unrecognizable. AI can generate code in seconds. But as the "how" becomes faster, the "why" becomes more important. For software engineers today, the value has shifted from writing lines of code to mastering logic, architecture, and building resilient systems. It is an incredibly fast-moving time to be a developer. We have better tools than ever, but that just means we have more space to focus on the high-level architecture and solving the real-world problems that actually matter. I am curious to hear from others who have seen this shift firsthand. How has your day-to-day work changed now that the search for syntax has been replaced by more strategic problem solving?
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