Developers will no longer write most of the code

The job has changed more in two years than in the previous ten. Today I can set a goal from my phone and find the work done — and reviewable — on a development machine.

The split is clean. Me: the goals, the architecture, the priorities and the final call. The agent: writing the code, refactoring, running the tests, fixing what breaks, documenting, deploying, handling Git and Docker.

What you don't delegate is judgement. An agent hands you ten plausible solutions in a minute; choosing the one that will still hold in three years is still your job. So is understanding it: code you don't understand is code you can't maintain.

That's why the part of my work that has grown most isn't writing, it's verifying. Tests worth having, types that make the mistake impossible, reviews where the diff actually gets read. Without that, speed just piles up debt faster.

Those who learn to work this way will multiply what they can ship. Those who don't will be competing on exactly the part of the job that is being automated.

I don't think the profession disappears. I think it gets renamed: from the person who writes the code to the person who answers for it.