AI collapsed the cost of producing code. It did not collapse the cost of owning it. That changes the senior developer job. More of it is now deciding what shoul
AI has significantly reduced the cost of generating code, but not the cost of maintaining it. This shift is altering the role of senior developers, who must now focus more on strategic decisions about what code *not* to build. Their responsibilities will increasingly involve identifying and eliminating unnecessary services, wrappers, and migrations that add complexity without proportional value. AI
IMPACT AI's impact on code generation costs is reshaping senior developer roles towards strategic decision-making and elimination of unnecessary complexity.