When AI Codes, What’s Left for me?

In this episode of CoRecursive, Adam Gordon Bell explores the developer community's division over AI coding agents, moving beyond typical debates about job replacement to focus on the personal impact on developers whose identities are tied to building. Sharing his journey from a rural, isolated childhood where coding became his passion, to finding his community in the tech world, he reflects on the fear of skills becoming devalued by AI. Adam encourages developers to set aside their fears and treat AI tools as learning opportunities, like pairing with a junior programmer, to enhance their abilities and tackle larger projects, emphasizing that while some skills may become less valuable, others will become significantly more powerful. He advocates for embracing these tools to rediscover the joy of building and to focus on the unique human contributions in software development, such as intuition and problem-solving.