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The Last Programmers
We're witnessing the final generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand.
They can spot inefficient algorithms, they know why certain design patterns exist, they understand the underlying systems well enough to debug problems that AI tools can't handle. When the AI-generated code breaks in subtle ways, when performance becomes an issue, when edge cases emerge that the AI didn't anticipate, these are the people who can actually fix it. The guardians build more robust, maintainable systems, but they sometimes spend so much time perfecting the implementation that they miss opportunities to learn what users actually want.
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