AI didn't replace developers — it replaced our understanding of our own code
loveolya · reddit · 2026-10-17
A Reddit post argues that what quietly disappeared isn't developer jobs but developers' understanding of their own code: people now describe what they want, ship 400 model-written lines, and can't explain half their repo. Debugging has become pasting errors back into the model. Veracode tested 100+ models and found 45% of generated code has known security issues — but the scarier trend is production code no human has fully read. The author argues most teams never replaced the role understanding used to play: verifying software does what it should on every change. Is faster everything worth software nobody understands?
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