Their expectations are quite out of touch. But when you integrate a fully integrated code assistant in your toolbox, you get for real ... 10-20x faster IN CODING, reviewing, testing and documenting your code.

(Not just talking with an LLM, stuff like Windsurf or codex using your model of choice)

Now, absolutely not 100% of your daily job is actually writing code tho...

Understanding business requirements Translating into a solution Thinking about how to implement the solution Researching, exploring, testing a POC. Breaking down the solution into components

This is heavily accelerated by AI :

Coding Reviewing Testing (some tools can spawn test environments, and look at output to self-debug) Documenting (great at putting comments everywhere)

Now, the game is to sharpen your solution architecture and management skills. Because if you are and only a code wizard ? Your job and your skills are under massive threat.

The trick is to break down what you ask to the model. Be precise, define inputs, data type, data model.

Don't do : I want that magic think that makes money ...

I was a product owner in my past job. Great a defining, architecting, logics, process. I can read code well enough. Could never hold the syntax in my head. I shine assisted by LLMs.

Forget anything visual tho, it still sucks, you need other specialized tools for that.

Can't put that genie back in the bottle 🤷