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AI did not make great developers obsolete.
It made average execution cheap.
Anyone can now generate:
• A landing page
• A dashboard
• An API
• A mobile app
• 5,000 lines of code before lunch
But here is what AI still cannot decide for you:
- Should this feature exist?
- Will a real customer understand it?
- Is the experience fast, trustworthy, and accessible?
- Can the system survive its first 10,000 users?
- Will another developer understand the code six months later?
The value of a developer is no longer measured by how quickly they can type code.
It is measured by the quality of the decisions they make before, during, and after the code is written.
AI can help you build almost anything.
Taste tells you what is worth building.
Engineering judgment makes sure it actually works.
The developers who win this decade will not compete against AI.
They will combine AI speed with the product thinking, creativity, and technical depth that AI cannot replace.
What is one skill you believe becomes MORE valuable as AI gets better?
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Writing good acceptance criteria. AI can turn a loose prompt into a lot of plausible code fast, so I spend more time defining success before the build and proving it afterward.
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