Senior developers face career identity crisis as AI coding culture displaces craft
Experienced developers who derive satisfaction from designing and building software feel displaced as AI tools and vibecoding culture reduce their role to prompt writing and code review. CTOs publicly declaring developers obsolete amplify anxiety across the profession. This is a systemic cultural shift without a clear product solution, though tooling that preserves developer agency within AI workflows could help.
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