alt Hacker NewsAgreed. I think coding agents have shown us one very important thing: It was never about the code.
Your idea and how well you can execute on it, i.e. how well you understand the problem space, is what has always mattered.
Coding being so easy now has just pulled back the curtain and shown the world that software developers really don't have much left to contribute. It's been done, a thousandfold.
I feel like everyone already knew the code was the easy part, even pre-AI.
> Coding being so easy now has just pulled back the curtain and shown the world that software developers really don't have much left to contribute. It's been done, a thousandfold.
Maybe, but I feel like there's a reason that the "useful" AI-generated work all seems to come from people who could get to the same result given "infinite" time anyways.
AI tool usage reflects and amplifies your own skill sets IMO, and I think it's pretty hard to be amazing at software architecture design but be bad at coding.