2 days ago
Thurs Jul 31, 2025 12:13pm PST
Ask HN: Are developers sad about AI writing more of their code?
I’ve been chatting with a few dev friends and colleagues about Cursor, copilot etc

and what surprised me was that their biggest feeling about this was neither excitement nor concern, but sadness.

Sadness in the sense that they are afraid the “fun” parts of their job (thinking, building, solving) might slowly be taken away. That they’ll become bored reviewers.

It got me wondering if other devs feel this way?

Are we really on a path where engineering turns into a supervisory job? or is it just temporary until it shifts into something radically different?

Curious to hear from dev folks here !

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