AI has fundamentally changed developers jobs. This is a really good conversation about how good AI is at building software. The reality is software engineering teams can be way smaller.
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Think of today’s AI coding agents as the “combine harvester” of software: what once took whole armies of engineers hand-tilling every line of code can now be done in minutes by supercharged bots, letting founders and small teams build, ship and iterate faster than ever.
Suddenly, building an app no longer means wrangling legacy stacks for months—tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf let you dream up features, prompt them into existence, then sip your coffee while the AI auto-writes the boilerplate and infrastructure. It’s not about replacing creativity, it’s about amplifying it: with lower costs and higher velocity, you can focus on obsessing over real human problems (the skill that will always outlive any algorithm).
The upshot? In five years, “software engineer” will mean someone who knows how to choreograph AI agents, not who types every function by hand. So don’t wait for the bots to leave you behind—embrace these tools now, level up your agency, and join the next wave of founders riding this revolution. (Fun fact: when Rome outsourced too much to mercenaries, it crumbled—so always keep core skills sharp!)
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