Everyone is cheering that AI turns you into a "full-stack everything." But no one is questioning what it means when all of us are full-stack everythings.
Here's the uncomfortable math: if AI hands every developer the same superpowers, those powers aren't superpowers anymore. They will become basic requirements.
The Essay That Hit a Nerve
A post titled "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do" went viral in developer communities, garnering hundreds of passionate responses. Its core message was direct: AI is diminishing the value of specialization, turning everyone into a generalist.
It wasn't the essay that surprised me. It was the reaction to it. Senior developers, with 10-15 years of experience, publicly sharing their career anxiety that their skills might be commoditized instantly.
