Are Developers Becoming Obsolete?

Software engineers who crank out code for mobile and web apps are watching their relevance slip away. Their future now hangs by a thread, getting bleaker with each passing day and urging them to upskill more than ever.

Simply put, traditional software engineers are now living in the developer era. 

Alarmingly, the barrier to entry for a developer is dropping every day. The most recent phenomenon that’s got everyone talking is Anysphere’s Cursor coding tool, which has basically turned everyone into a developer. And now, there are more tools coming up in the same category, such as Codeium, Magic, and Zed AI, all trying to make the same formula work. 

Graduating out of colleges with computer science degrees in a world to compete with the people who are becoming software engineers using AI tools, the turmoil of an average software engineer is real.