When a prompt describing what you need is submitted, an AI fills in forty lines of clean, working code. You run it. It works. You ship it.
At that point, reality is obvious: writing correct code is no longer the hard part.
While preparing this article, my assistant wrote "syntax is dead" 😂 But let's be clear — syntax isn't dead. You still need to understand what the code does, debug it when it breaks, and know when the AI is confidently wrong to a reasonable extent.
So what's changed that separates a junior developer from a senior one?
The Real Difference Has Always Been There
