They Built Your World. Now They're Being Told They're Obsolete.

Originally published at https://blog.akshatuniyal.com . A letter to every developer sitting quietly with fear in their chest — you are not a line item to be optimized away. (A perspective on the human cost behind the AI gold rush.) I've been sitting on this feeling for a while. Watching colleagues and friends go quiet. Those still standing are under daily pressure to justify their own existence against a machine. Thought it was time to say it out loud. There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a room when someone realizes their life's work might be expiring. Not the comfortable silence of a Sunday morning, but the hollow kind — the kind that follows a sentence like "we've already automated 80% of coding in our company," delivered casually at a conference, between sips of water, by someone whose net worth would make your annual salary look like a rounding error. That silence is where millions of software developers live right now. And I think it's time someone wrote about