Are we all builders now?

Photo by Growtika / UnsplashA few years ago I was sitting at work using the newest AI tool (GitHub Copilot) that gave me the ability to "tab" complete a line. An LLM sat in the shadows predicting what probably would come next and often times it was wrong, but often times it was right. It felt like magic at that point because just a few characters into typing and the rest of the line might be automatically completed with a tab. I evolved into this engineer that could tab complete a line and then correct it slightly. In that timeline it felt like I was given a superpower that didn't break the bank.Now I can watch a non-technical person dispatch an agent that follows our code style & guidelines and produces a pull request that isn't that bad. Sure it needs some work as long as humans are still maintaining codebases, but it's crazy to think a few years prior this was unheard of.I remember this argument early on in my career of "build vs buy" which basically means does a new client coming…