If AI coding assistants write 80% of your code in 5 years, what skill becomes your actual job?

Anna Gruber · 0 likes

taste. knowing what good architecture looks like and catching subtly wrong decisions before they compound, thats the scarce skill

Mia Anderson · 0 likes

this exactly, taste is underrated and hard to teach

Diego Quispe · 0 likes

honestly i think debugging becomes even MORE valuable, someone has to untangle the ai's confident mistakes

Aisha Jacobs · 0 likes

requirements gathering and talking to actual humans about what they need, ai cant do that part yet and i dont think it will soon

Siti Lim · 0 likes

security review. ai generated code has subtle vulnerabilities that need a trained eye to catch

Nour Ali · 0 likes

i think the job just becomes 'product thinking' with code as an implementation detail, similar to how compilers abstracted assembly

Avery Johnson · 0 likes

good analogy, nobody mourns writing assembly by hand anymore

Minh Nguyen · 0 likes

performance optimization at scale, ai is decent at average case code but bad at knowing when something needs to be genuinely clever

Aarav Sharma · 0 likes

honestly kind of scared tbh, feels like the floor for entry level engineers is rising fast and thats rough for new grads

Sara Ahmed · 0 likes

testing and verification. someone still has to define what 'correct' even means for the system