I am not that concerned about AI writing all the code, because it was never just coding that I fell in love with, it was development. I started programming to bring my ideas to life. Writing code was just the medium, the real joy was turning my thoughts into reality.
Whenever I express concern about the current state of AI, people often ask "If you can develop things so much faster now, what's the problem?"
The problem was accessibility.
When I started, all you needed to build something meaningful was a computer, even the cheapest one available. Documentation was free, tools were free, and the main currency required was time and effort. Putting in that personal effort to complete a project made the final product feel genuinely special.
Compare that to today. Development is increasingly shifting from effort-driven to budget-driven. The developers who can afford top-tier AI models are significantly more productive than those who cannot. In developing countries, expecting a student to pay $20 a month for an AI subscription is completely unrealistic. When you pour weeks of effort into building a project, only to watch someone with a higher budget one-shot a similar application using an AI agent, the work loses its magic.
