The Democratization of Software Development

For most of us, I think the picture is obvious. The job we did for years, picking up a ticket, opening Figma, digging through the codebase, typing code into a file, adding a test, debugging the test, jumping to Stack Overflow, getting in the zone, and grinding on a single task for hours, those days are ending. Everything that took us so long to get good at, learning the language, memorizing shortcuts, understanding Git, all of it, can now slowly be handed off to agents. It’s the same reason we don’t write assembly anymore. Before long, we won’t write Vue or React or Java by hand either. And it’s already happening in another way. We’re starting to stop reading the code. We just check whether the behavior we wanted actually works. The team that used to be For years, getting an idea from a customer’s head into a shipped product meant passing it down a chain of people. The customer talked to a PM, the PM wrote it up for a designer, the designer handed mockups to a developer, and the…