I’ve been writing software long enough to remember when “AI tools for developers” meant little more than autocomplete on steroids. You’d type a function name and it would try to guess the next three lines, usually getting them wrong in creative ways. Helpful? Sometimes. A glimpse of the future? Not really. It felt more like a parlor trick than a real shift in how we build things.
Then the landscape changed fast. All of a sudden, AI wasn’t just suggesting code. it was trying to write it, debug it, even architect whole features. Tools like GitHub Copilot became fixtures in my editor, and I learned to work with them the way you’d learn to work with a very clever but slightly flaky intern: impressive one minute, wildly off-base the next.
