I haven’t written a single line of code by myself since April 2025

Everything I ship is AI-assisted.

Not autocomplete. Not snippets. Full workflows.

At first, it felt uncomfortable. Like I was skipping something important.

But the constraint in software engineering was never typing speed. It was clarity of thought.

AI changes the role.

I spend less time on boilerplate, wiring APIs, or fixing obvious bugs.

More time goes into:
• Defining clear specs
• Breaking problems into precise steps
• Designing scalable systems
• Reviewing and validating outputs

The core skill is no longer “can you code this?”

It is “Can you express this clearly enough for a system to build it correctly?”

I still debug. I still design from first principles.

But I do not default to writing code anymore.

I direct it.

If you are using AI like a faster IDE, you are underestimating the change.

This is not about speed.

It is about how software gets built.