AI is creating an identity crisis for coders: 'I focused on this one thing, and now it doesn't matter anymore.'

As AI takes on more of the work of writing code, what it means to be a software engineer is changing.

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• AI's rapid advances are changing what it means to be a software developer.
• At companies like Spotify, top engineers have largely stopped coding.
• Coders who once were busy "arm wrestling with a computer" are looking for new ways to find meaning.

For Adam Janes, the odd thing about being a software engineer these days is that he rarely writes code anymore.