AI CODING SHIFTS ROLES, NOT ELIMINATING ENGINEERS
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Generative AI has democratized coding, enabling non-programmers to build applications through simple prompts. Yet industry leaders argue this accessibility marks a transformation in engineering work rather than its demise.
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