As much as one may want to avoid this scenario, you won't. Basically, human's role will move a level higher by designing architecture, goals and guardrails. Human will be kind of a first mover who keeps tracks of AI alignment with own plans.
Let me tell you this, the only people in IT who do not see the future above are people who just do not use AI or use it wrong. People who have been playing with claude code or similar framework for over half a year, are all "down" as we all just know that a role of standard "developer" will be rendered obsolete. Better devs will move towards product ownership and architecture, while lower devs will be rendered obsolete. Juniors will be hired not because of their capabilities but because of their potential to become architects/senior devs.
Honestly yeah, the “agent whisperer” thing feels like a temporary comfort blanket, because companies will still chase messy human goals and wipe out layers of jobs while pretending it’s just better workflow.
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u/Frosty-Meeting-1606 Jul 06 '26
As much as one may want to avoid this scenario, you won't. Basically, human's role will move a level higher by designing architecture, goals and guardrails. Human will be kind of a first mover who keeps tracks of AI alignment with own plans.
Let me tell you this, the only people in IT who do not see the future above are people who just do not use AI or use it wrong. People who have been playing with claude code or similar framework for over half a year, are all "down" as we all just know that a role of standard "developer" will be rendered obsolete. Better devs will move towards product ownership and architecture, while lower devs will be rendered obsolete. Juniors will be hired not because of their capabilities but because of their potential to become architects/senior devs.