--- title: AI Coding: Will Programmers Be Replaced? | daily.dev description: A short opinion-style rant questioning whether AI coding tools will replace programmers, framed as a provocative dialogue suggesting employers could cut out... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-coding-will-programmers-be-replaced--na7xhpaig twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Coding: Will Programmers Be Replaced? | daily.dev og:description: A short opinion-style rant questioning whether AI coding tools will replace programmers, framed as a provocative dialogue suggesting employers could cut out... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-coding-will-programmers-be-replaced--na7xhpaig og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NA7xHpAIg.png og:image:alt: AI Coding: Will Programmers Be Replaced? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Coding: Will Programmers Be Replaced? **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A short opinion-style rant questioning whether AI coding tools will replace programmers, framed as a provocative dialogue suggesting employers could cut out developers entirely by instructing AI directly and pocketing their salaries. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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