The Future of Developers in the AI Era
My personal experience with artificial intelligence invading my field
I have spent so many hours in the past as I debugged, tracing the same bug in an endless loop. This was how it used to be and we as developers would spend time working odd hours, solving problems that demanded not just skill but also persistence.
But something had changed recently.
AI has finally reached the doorstep of software development. I hardly paid attention, though. AI was something I read about.
It was something we’d discuss at the occasional tech meetup as this far-off possibility, like self-driving cars or space travel for everyone. It didn’t feel like a big danger to what I did anytime soon.
It calls for more than just a set of rules; it calls for knowledge, problem-solving, and even a kind of creative instinct to my thinking, uniquely human.
Then came the AI assistants.
They started with small, simple tools that’d suggest better code snippets or auto-complete my lines based on common patterns. It made life easier and streamlined the tedious parts of the job.
Who would not want help with that?
