Engineers' value is judgment, not lines of code, in the AI era
iamKierraD · x · 2026-09-04
Quoting svpino on developers whose identity is tied to writing code feeling threatened by AI, the poster argues that lines of code, commits, and PRs don't inherently equal business value. Market value increasingly depends on judgment and the importance of problems you solve — protect revenue, not the mechanism. Fighting AI-generated code is an uphill battle.
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