How to Survive AI as a Developer

In his latest sketch comedy, " Shipping a button in 2026 ", the YouTuber Kai Lentit depicts a software engineer debating with ghostly caricatures of different software developer archetypes, on how he should go about implementing a new feature for his software. Each one convincing him to pick a certain programming language, framework, and or technology to implement his basic software feature. In the end, after a lot of back-and-forth, and frustrated by the amount of choice and how the scope has expanded, he finally decides to open his AI code editor and let an AI model take care of it instead. The punchline resonates with many developers, because it mirrors our new reality where we can have AI write code in programming language and frameworks we are not familiar with. AI has created a new layer in the software development process, where natural language can be compiled into working software code, and with the latest models and tools, it can debug, refactor and iterate. This has lead man