Over the past days, a recurring theme has surfaced in conversations with colleagues — often not in formal meetings, but around lunch tables, coffee machines, and hallway chats. The topic is unavoidable: AI coding agents. Alongside the excitement sits a quiet, restrained anxiety. What happens to software developers when machines can write code? My perspective is neither alarmist nor dismissive. Yes, change is coming — profound change. But no, the developer role is not disappearing. What we are witnessing is …





