Veteran devs argue deep stack knowledge is worth more, not less, in the AI coding era
Liu_eroteme · x · 2026-09-28
In a reply about whether senior developers' skills are losing value, Liueroteme argues the opposite: with AI coding tools lowering the entry floor, new devs start at a higher abstraction level—faster, but with little incentive to deeply understand the stack. That means they can't push coding agents to and beyond their limits; devs who truly understand the underlying stack can, which makes that knowledge more valuable, not less.
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