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The current AI boom is the excitement of non-developers discovering autocomplete on empire-grade hardware.

It is impressive.
It is useful.
It is not the resurrection of software engineering.

The developer is still on the cross.

Because someone still has to carry the weight of correctness.

Someone still has to understand state.
Concurrency.
Failure.
Security.
Dependencies.
Production.
Maintenance.
The one edge case the demo never showed.

AI has industrialized suggestion faster than it has industrialized verification.

Generating code was never the final problem.

Knowing whether the code is true was.

The spectacle is autocomplete at planetary scale.

The engineering is still verification.

And until the machine can carry that burden itself, the developer remains exactly where software has always put them:

on the cross between what was promised and what actually runs.

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