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AI Won't Replace Developers - Empty Encouragement or the Truth?

AI không thay thế được lập trình viên - Lời động viên sáo rỗng hay là sự thật?

Honestly, during many coffee chats with my team members, listening to their anxious questions, I often find myself pausing. If one day AI can truly do "everything" - from gathering requirements, designing, writing code to fixing bugs by itself - where do we stand?

Perhaps we need to be honest with each other: The pure "coder" profession is counting down its final days.

If your job is just converting Figma designs to HTML/CSS, or writing repetitive logic functions, AI has already beaten us. But there's something I believe AI is still far from reaching: Responsibility and Empathy.

AI can generate 1,000 solutions, but it cannot choose which one is best for a specific business problem, nor can it take responsibility when the system fails. It can write code fast, but it doesn't know "pain" when user experience is poor.

Gartner predicts that by 2028, 75% of enterprise developers will use AI assistants to improve efficiency. But this doesn't replace them - it helps them focus on ideation and skill enhancement.

I tell my team: "Don't try to become a machine faster than AI. Become an Engineer - someone who uses technology to solve human problems."

If AI can do 99% of the execution work, then the remaining 1% - Decision Making - is our value. The more AI-generated code floods the world, the more we need "gatekeepers" with solid foundational knowledge to review and control it.

Being optimistic doesn't mean being blind - it means being clear-headed enough to change. We don't evolve to fight against tools; we evolve to master them.

Are you still learning? Learning not to beat AI, but to not be left behind in this world that AI is redefining.