"AI writes terrible code and my software engineer job is 100% gone — both true"
nicolascraske · x · 2026-09-19
A former software engineer's short post captures the central tension of AI coding: "AI writes terrible code" and "the job I once had is 100% gone" can both be true at the same time — capability verdicts and job displacement are two different dimensions.
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