I agree with you 100%. I’ve never enjoyed programming for the sake of writing code. I’ve always loved creating products and coding was just a necessary evil to do that. And thanks to AI I can now focus more on the product, its UX, design, etc instead of spending most of the time in the codebase.
But most software engineers I’ve worked with are not like that. In fact, they want to be as far away from the customer/user as possible and they love the coding for coding’s sake. I’m afraid those are the first to be replaced by AI as their skills don’t extend beyond writing code, which is probably why they are screaming so much now.
