Yes. Manual coding will become a premium skill. Debugging AI code is slower than writing your own. As API costs rise and efficiency drops, human-first engineering will return as the ultimate cost-saver.
Do you think we'll eventually go back to writing more code manually?
As AI generates more code, reviewing and debugging it seems to be becoming the real job.
And with AI limits getting tighter...
some companies are spending more money on AI subscriptions than they're saving in engineering time.
It's definitely C. The undisputed king of manual memory management, segment faults, and writing operating systems from scratch.
AI is already automating these. LLMs code system designs, auto-tune prompts, and optimize deployments faster than humans. The stack isn’t safe; the nature of the work is just shifting.
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