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A software engineer's job isn't to write code, it's to make decisions. Going from "give me Uber for bicycles" to a working app that runs on a device takes a million decisions, which a bunch of people (designers, copywriters, engineers, etc) make.

Yes, the AI is good at taking low-level requests and turning them into reasonable code, and then refining them, but unless the CEO is going to sit down and spend days telling the AI "OK now make this button disabled when it's clicked until the table loads", you need someone to be doing that.




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