This is probably one of the biggest shifts happening in software right now.
A few years ago, building a production-grade platform in 3 months with a very small team would’ve sounded unrealistic. Now AI tools can remove huge amounts of repetitive work:
boilerplate debugging documentation scaffolding refactoring test generation
But I think the most valuable part is not “AI replacing developers.” It’s that developers can finally spend more time on architecture, product decisions, UX, and business logic instead of fighting repetitive code.
The interesting part is that the best developers now aren’t necessarily the fastest typers. They’re the ones who know how to collaborate effectively with AI tools without losing engineering judgment.