Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?

Software developers on Hacker News are sounding the alarm about a seismic shift in the profession. At one fifteen-person company, code is no longer reviewed by humans—some developers are juggling five or more simultaneous AI sessions, with Claude writing, explaining, and checking nearly every line. The result is a landscape where understanding problems deeply, maintaining principles around code quality, and even human code review are being offloaded entirely, replaced by an explosion of AI-generated tests. The real concern: programming is transforming from a precise, knowledge-driven craft into something probabilistic and untethered from human expertise.

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