Developers Are Mourning the Death of Their Craft 💀

'We Mourn Our Craft' — that's the title lighting up developer circles this week. And honestly? It hits different. 😔

The essay argues that software development is losing its humanity. When AI writes your boilerplate, suggests your algorithms, and even debugs your errors, what's left for the human? Are we becoming 'prompt engineers' instead of engineers?

The old days:

• 💻 Hours crafting elegant solutions
• 🎨 Pride in clean, beautiful code
• 🧠 Deep understanding of systems
• 🏆 Mastery built over years

The new reality:

• 🤖 AI generates 80% of the code
• 📋 Humans just review and tweak
• ⚡ Speed matters more than elegance
• 🔄 Code becomes disposable

But here's the twist: Maybe this is progress? We don't mourn blacksmiths or switchboard operators. Crafts evolve. The question isn't whether coding is dying — it's whether the next form of creation will be as satisfying.

Gen Z developers might never know the 'pure' coding experience. But they'll build things faster than any generation before them. Trade-off? Absolutely. Progress? Probably.