AI coding agents are changing software work, but maybe not in the way people expected
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AI coding tools are getting much better, but I don’t think the biggest change is simply “developers write less code.”
The bigger change seems to be that developers are becoming reviewers, architects, and orchestrators.
Instead of only asking, “Can the AI generate this function?” the more important questions are:
Did it understand the system?
Did it change the right file?
Did it introduce hidden bugs?
Does the architecture still make sense?
Can another human maintain this later?
The speed is real, but the review burden is also real.
For developers using AI coding agents daily: are they making you more productive, or just shifting your work from writing code to managing code quality?
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/u/Alpertayfur
Originally posted by u/Alpertayfur on r/ArtificialInteligence
AI coding tools are getting much better, but I don’t think the biggest change is simply “developers write less code.”
The bigger change seems to be that developers are becoming reviewers, architects, and orchestrators.
Instead of only asking, “Can the AI generate this function?” the more important questions are:
Did it understand the system?
Did it change the right file?
Did it introduce hidden bugs?
Does the architecture still make sense?
Can another human maintain this later?
The speed is real, but the review burden is also real.
For developers using AI coding agents daily: are they making you more productive, or just shifting your work from writing code to managing code quality?
submitted by
/u/Alpertayfur
Originally posted by u/Alpertayfur on r/ArtificialInteligence