Roles aren’t disappearing - capabilities are expanding, and often the problem isn’t the system, it’s the prompt. I saw that firsthand at this year’s Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco.
I was at Pragmatic Summit when Chip Huyen reframed the AI conversation - if any product can be generated from a clear description, code isn’t the constraint, and true value lies elsewhere.
I was in the room at this year’s Pragmatic Summit when Laura Tacho dropped the numbers: nearly all developers use AI coding assistants, over a quarter of production code is AI-written - and yet productivity gains haven’t budged past 10%.