Comment by trimethylpurine

The job of a coder has far from become obsolete, as you're saying. It's definitely changed to almost entirely just code review though.

With Opus 4.6 I'm seeing that it copies my code style, which makes code review incredibly easy, too.

At this point, I've come around to seeing that writing code is really just for education so that you can learn the gotchas of architecture and support. And maybe just to set up the beginnings of an app, so that the LLM can mimic something that makes sense to you, for easy reading.

And all that does mean fewer jobs, to me. Two guys instead of six or more.

All that said, there's still plenty to do in infrastructure and distributed systems, optimizations, network engineering, etc. For now, anyway.