Will AI Take Away My Job - A Dig at Artificial Intelligence & Generative AI

There is one BIG question running around on the internet. from Reddit threads to Instagram reels to YouTube rants. Will AI Replace Software Developers? or Will AI Take Away My Job? CEOs of big tech giants saying that AI will replace coders before 2030. But what's the truth in these claims?

Will AI Replace Coders?

The short answer is NO. Think for yourself, if you've ever used AI, how easy is it to get exactly what you want? Does it ever hallucinate? Does it make mistakes? Does it even know what you expect in the first place? AI is still far from replacing most coders, especially those doing complex, system-level, or creative work. But for repetitive, boilerplate-heavy tasks, it's already pretty effective, and improving fast. Junior devs relying on outdated tooling and not updating their skills may be at higher risk.

If you're stuck in outdated tooling without growing your skill set, AI might be more of a threat to you than others. But it was always the case. Roles that mostly involve copy-pasting solutions from Stack Overflow were never highly paid, and AI is only speeding up that decline. Whereas things like doing complex GSAP animations, web optimisation, image optimisation, code debugging, etc. these were hard to find and still are. Remember that AI is only trained on data that was already widely available on the internet.

AI is great at churning out React components and Next.js boilerplate. But what about low-level system design? Real-time architectures with no errors? It's not even close.

AI Limitations

AI is powerful, but it's not magic. If you've ever used tools like ChatGPT or Copilot, you already know, it can feel like having an unpaid intern. Fast, confident, and wrong half the time.

AI doesn't understand your business logic, your product goals, or the weird little constraints hidden deep in your codebase. It doesn't know what your team values, what your user actually needs, or how to prioritize trade-offs. It just predicts what looks like the right answer based on patterns from public data.

It won't challenge a bad idea or tell you your architecture's going to fail under scale. And it'll happily give you broken code that looks completely legit. Unless you know what you're doing.

Also, most current AI tools are biased toward mainstream tech stacks. They excel at React, Next.js, and Python, but start to stumble when you ask about niche libraries, legacy systems, or tools that haven't made it into the training data.

So no, AI won't replace developers anytime soon. But developers who can't work alongside AI? They might get left behind.

Why Big Tech CEOs Love AI?

If they have invested billions of dollars into developing something that only kind of works then it is obvious that they need to make unbelievable claims to the investors that the money they spent will bear fruit. And in this case, reduce employee expenses.

Imagine spending billions of dollars in GPU clusters only to generate ghibli art.

In reality, these CEOs are fueling fears of job loss to push you into paying $20 a month for their chatbot, making you feel like you'll become obsolete without it. They then offer subscription plans for their AI models, which you can use at work. After all, if they don't make these tools essential, all the investment will go to waste. Well, not a complete waste. AI is still a huge achievement in the tech world.

So What To Do Now?

It's simple. Just keep doing your thing and integrate AI in your work. Consider AI tool like an unpaid intern and let it do the boring stuff for you. Let it do the repetitive tasks, generate boilerplate code, write documentation and add comments to your code.

Use that extra time to ask the AI smarter questions like how to clean up your code or explain a concept you're still confused about. Instead of spending countless hours going through the documentations, to find an answer to a specific question, just ask your chatbot about it, chances are you'll find the answer you need.

I personally use AI to learn new things that would otherwise take time to google and find good articles about the concepts I want to learn. How many times have you wanted to know how to center a div in CSS? Things like that. AI will list all the answers for you to try them out.

Use AI to explain certain concepts about react. How does a react hook work? How does next js server components work? What is streaming? Nowadays, I've even used ChatGPT to validate some app ideas before I decide to work on them. I simply feed my idea into the AI and tell it to criticize and give me a different perspective on the idea. Trust me it can do a lot of things.

And it's not just developers who benefit from this shift, AI is transforming creativity and access across every field.

Why AI Is Amazing?

There are over 8 billion people on this planet, and almost every one of them has a dream, an app idea, a short film, a novel, a game, a piece of art they wish they could bring to life. But most people don't know how to code, design, draw, or animate. Hiring talent is expensive. Learning the skills takes years. So their ideas stay locked in their heads, possibly lost forever.

Generative AI changes that. With just a prompt, anyone can spin up a website, a video, a prototype, or a story. It lowers the barrier between imagination and execution. Some say it's just remixing the work of "real artists." But come on, haven't humans always done that? None of us are born with perfect technique or completely original ideas. We absorb, we adapt, we remix. Let's be honest, originality has always been overrated. Every great idea is built on something that came before.

This same fear isn't new. When the camera was invented, portrait artists called it the death of art. But now? Nearly everyone has a camera. No one's posing for oil paintings anymore and that didn't kill art. It changed it. It expanded who could participate. It created a whole new industry of work.

AI is doing the same. It's not about replacing experts, it's about empowering beginners. Now, someone can bring a half baked app, film, or story idea to life without a massive budget. If the idea resonates online, they'll likely hire real artists, developers, editors, or animators to turn that raw material into something polished and professional.

That's not the death of creativity. That's more demand for it. That's more jobs. More ideas. More people getting started. And honestly, isn't that what progress looks like?

Conclusion

So, will AI take away your job? The answer is still NO, but it's a bit more complicated than that. AI is not here to replace developers, but to complement our work. It can handle repetitive tasks and help you be more efficient, but it can't replicate the creativity, problem solving, or deep understanding required for complex software development.

Those who adapt to the AI-driven world will find themselves ahead of the curve, using AI as an ally rather than seeing it as a competitor.

Remember, AI isn't the end of creativity or expertise. It's just the next step in the evolution of technology. It's an opportunity, not a threat. And just like the camera didn't kill painting, calculators didn't end accountants, computers didn't risk book keeper's jobs, AI won't kill software development. It will open up new possibilities, empower more people, and drive innovation forward.

Recommended Resources

I recently came across a video on YouTube that explains how developers should use AI in their work. It was a great video and I highly recommend you watch it.