AI Replacing Me? Please Do
The article argues that AI is superior to humans in writing code, making raw coding skills increasingly commoditized. However, it asserts that human engineers remain essential for critical thinking, contextual judgment, and creating new value. The author advises developers to evolve into engineers who leverage AI for efficiency while maintaining accountability for the final product.
- ▪AI is described as faster, more accurate, and more readable than human engineers when writing code.
- ▪Human advantages include critical thinking, understanding company context, and knowing when to say no to features.
- ▪The article states that being a mere developer is no longer sufficient, and professionals must adopt an engineering mindset to create value.
- ▪Engineers must maintain accountability by understanding the code they merge, even if AI generates the initial solution.
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| Original publisher | Medium |
| Canonical URL | https://medium.com/@azolf/ai-replacing-me-please-do-e353ac6a4bc1 |
| Publication time | Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:46:43 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-26T19:50:39.608Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-26T19:50:39.608Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Software EnginneringAIAI Replacing Me? Please Do!Amir4 min read·Just now--ListenShareIs this article just more AI slop? Maybe! It’s more of a heartfelt reflection, corrected and polished with AI.Press enter or click to view image in full sizeFor a couple of years now, one question has been everywhere: what will happen with AI? How will it affect our day-to-day work? In software engineering especially, AI is taking over work that people used to do. Does that worry me? Absolutely not!AI Is Already Better at Writing CodeI’ve joked that for years, engineers built software, frameworks, and new programming languages, and attached piles of documentation to them, mostly because we didn’t want to talk to each other and preferred to just point to the docs!Now AI reads those docs and understands…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Medium.
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