Right now, your job is shifting under your feet and nobody has officially told you yet.
You still push code.
You still join standups.
You still review pull requests.
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But something small has changed in the room.
A junior drops a commit that looks far too polished for someone with nine months of experience.
A product manager pastes a messy spec into ChatGPT-6 and comes back with a working prototype.
You see your own habits mirrored by a machine that never gets tired, never loses focus, and never forgets the docs.
You are not obsolete.
You are not safe either.
You are standing at the exact moment developers start to feel less special.
We Are Stepping Into The Awkward Middle
For a long time, being a developer meant you understood a secret language.
You had the right terminals and the right keyboard shortcuts.
You knew how to turn…
