Oh boy did we though we had more time.

Sure, we had ChatGPT for a couple of years now as well as others LLMs. Chatboxes where we copy/paste code, still having the hands deep down in the code. After that came the Copilot and the Cursor auto-complete. It is/was working well, but the extreme promixity with the code was still there. Then this fall something changed. With Claude Code, you could work in the terminal as if you were in the IDE. The fact that it already has all the context of your codebase at all times is the game changer, coupled with how good the models are becoming at coding.

Fall 2025, A Turning Point

You can have the best technology in the world, the application is what really unlocks its potential.

The Future of Job Market

Am I afraid for my line of work? Not really. Maybe in a couple years. But I still feel pretty safe. For now, at least. I was always a product-minded developer and somehow I feel empowered by this new way of working. Sure, I love those long meditative coding sessions. It’s no secret and all seniors will tell you: as you accumlate experience in the field, the coding part becomes the easy one. The high-level analysis and the system design is where the complexity lies. How to adres scaling, security, performance, all that jazz.

We’re at the start of the era of agentic coding. And for one I welcome it, but with a healthy dose of scepticesim. Environment cost is real and it’s quite easy to see through all the marketing campaigns and shocking declarations of those big AI company’s CEOs. There’s also the economic reality of it. We all know the tokens consumptions is currently heavily subsidized. How long can it be that way?

We can only hope on major advancement on token consumption optimization. But I am quite confident on this. If there’s something programmers love, it is automating and optimizing. As long as there is a need for one of these in the world, we will be needed.