What do software developers do now?
I don’t even know what a software engineer is supposed to be doing anymore. Do we code? Do we architect systems? AI agents have changed everything, and I don’t even know what to think. I don’t write much code anymore. In my day job, I ask Claude to do most of the analysis, planning, and coding. My side projects are 100% written by Claude Code, and in some of these, I literally haven’t even reviewed the code because I trust Claude and because gStack reviews the code for me. So I can still call myself a software developer, but I don’t think I can call myself a programmer anymore. But even in my role as a “software developer,” what I am doing is radically different. Writing code is a completely different animal from directing AI to write code. While I review the code that I write, that is not the same as reviewing the code that an agent writes for me. Having an agent write code is like having another developer write your code for you and then reviewing it. It’s a totally different exper