--- title: Are software devs cooked? | daily.dev description: A reflection on the evolving role of software developers as AI agents take over routine coding tasks. The author argues developers will shift toward building... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/are-software-devs-cooked--dixwzneul twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Are software devs cooked? | daily.dev og:description: A reflection on the evolving role of software developers as AI agents take over routine coding tasks. The author argues developers will shift toward building... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/are-software-devs-cooked--dixwzneul og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dixWZNeUL.png og:image:alt: Are software devs cooked? 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. # Are software devs cooked? **[Ben Holmes](https://daily.dev/sources/bholmes)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A reflection on the evolving role of software developers as AI agents take over routine coding tasks. The author argues developers will shift toward building meta-tooling, orchestrating multi-agent workflows, optimizing token costs, and managing cloud automations — framing this as an exciting frontier for the next decade rather than a threat to the profession. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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