Able to ≠ willing to
Your dev job is safe, bro.
It’s crazy how good Claude Code is these days for coding. To the point it became a hype train.
“Everyone’s able to build software now! Developers are out of a job! ”, the influencers shout.
But able to doesn’t mean willing to.
Most people conflate the two.
The gap between ability and willingness is as wide as an ocean, to be honest. It’s like saying, just because the smartphone put a camera in everyone’s pocket and made photography ubiquitous, doesn’t suddenly make everyone a professional photographer, right? Nor are normies automatically interested to become one, just because an easy-to-use tool now exists.
And as far as I know, photographers still have a job. They simply moved up the value chain, to jobs and situations where a phone camera won’t cut it, where people are still willing to pay for a pro’s expertise, where the occasion is formal and important.
Your dev job is safe, bro.
Get back to work.
Good points. Honestly learning programming was relatively simple and accessible for years. People who never wanted to do it will be quickly burned or overwhelmed with AI programming just the same.