A week of AI coding made me feel like an 'expediter', not a programmer
sloppenheimer · x · 2026-11-01
A developer quips that after a week of working with AI, he feels more like an "expediter" than a programmer — his job has shifted to dispatching, chasing, and verifying AI-produced work. A reply ups the ante: "or air traffic control," underscoring how the human role in AI-assisted coding is drifting from writing code to supervising autonomous output.
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