AWS CEO Matt Garman told an internal meeting that within two years most developers might stop coding altogether. This is what someone says when they confuse coding with typing.
Coding is the act of forcing a vague requirement into something precise enough to execute. The work happens before any line is written: deciding what ‘allow users to share content easily’ actually means, which platforms count, what the privacy boundary is, how it degrades on a slow network. A model can produce a function once you have answered those questions. It cannot make you ask them.
The same gap shows up in debugging and in the architectural decisions that determine whether a system survives its second year. AI assistants will absorb more of the typing. The thinking is the job, and the job is not going anywhere in two years.