I keep reading more and more about how AI will revolutionize coding, how you simply have to know and use AI agents for people to consider you for a developer job, and how using it is already the new normal for most programmers. Pondering these articles and how much I'm being pressured to use AI at any available opportunity, made a question pop up in my mind. Do I even want to be a coder anymore? The thing is, I like coding. No, actually, I love coding. It's like lightweight puzzle solving, having to plan on how to solve a problem and then actually writing it out, in a succinct yet comprehensive, easy-to-understand way. It's a craft I have honed in this industry for over 15 years now. Tools have changed along the way, and it currently seems that AI is here to say. And don't get me wrong; I only have a few quibbles about using it in daily work, things that probably will be improved over time as the tech and implementations mature. I'm not an "AI teetotaler" like I have heard some…
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