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Software developer & gamer. building Run Beast

[Enea Jahollari 🅰 @Enea_Jahollari]

Posts like this keep popping up https://t.co/WICsueJKSq

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

Every time I open this app on my timeline i'm seeing a new Saas product being launched. Humans are really creating awesome stuff this days.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

@UnrealEngine Wow🤯, Epic

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

been quiet for a minute.
building something for nairobi runners that strava will never understand.
more soon. 🔥

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

But sympathy doesn't change the direction of reality. The reality I see is that the developer's role is changing. Writing code line by line is no longer the work. Thinking clearly, architecting systems, knowing when the agent is wrong, that is kinda the work.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

I have been trying out AI agents heavily for the last 2 weeks. I am a working developer with 3 years of experience. You give it instructions and it produces code across many files instantly. Things that used to eat your afternoon, done in minutes. OPEN FOR MORE

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

So it forces a harder question. Was the joy in solving the problem, or in the labor of writing it out?

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

That is my craft. That is my proof of work. And if I am honest, that is also where my satisfaction lived.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

And I include myself in this. I have spent 3 years writing UserDTOs, mapping entities to responses, building the same Spring Boot CRUD endpoints, the same Angular forms with FormBuilder and validation, the same MapStruct mappers between entity and DTO. Over and over.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

We're saying it because if AI users don't count as real engineers, our mastery is still special. The argument isn't protecting the code. It's protecting the identity.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

So when I and other developers say if you use AI you don't understand real software, we are not entirely wrong.

But that's not why we're saying it.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

Your status feels threatened. And the fear underneath is real. That the bar gets lowered. That anyone can hide behind an agent and call themselves an engineer.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

And the more I use these tools, the more I notice something uncomfortable, in myself and in other developers. The idea of AI replacing us feels like an attack. Cause when your identity is built on mastery of a thing, the thing becoming obsolete feels like a personal attack.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

@marmaduke091

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

@Kiprotich_DK This is absolutely embarrassing 😂

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

I’m keeping this here so I can look back in five years.

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

I like bananas

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

OG FORTNITE WITH MEMES 🤣 https://t.co/FMCYeOSa3Y

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

MEMENITE 🔥

[Horse @Gilbertkitetu1]

I got a subscriber today. yay!