--- title: As a Developer, I Got ONE Thing Wrong About AI. | daily.dev description: A developer reflects on being wrong about AI's impact on coding, arguing that AI turned out to be strongest at software development because of two factors:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/as-a-developer-i-got-one-thing-wrong-about-ai--ppyfl583b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: As a Developer, I Got ONE Thing Wrong About AI. | daily.dev og:description: A developer reflects on being wrong about AI's impact on coding, arguing that AI turned out to be strongest at software development because of two factors:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/as-a-developer-i-got-one-thing-wrong-about-ai--ppyfl583b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PPyfL583b.png og:image:alt: As a Developer, I Got ONE Thing Wrong About AI. 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. # As a Developer, I Got ONE Thing Wrong About AI. **[Stefan Mischook](https://daily.dev/sources/stefanmischook)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer reflects on being wrong about AI's impact on coding, arguing that AI turned out to be strongest at software development because of two factors: code's inherently logical and structured nature makes it easier to train on, and companies like Anthropic deliberately targeted developers as early adopters for business reasons. The piece speculates on the future of software development, suggesting AI acts as a new abstraction layer that will create new categories of jobs (similar to the web development boom) while still requiring developers to understand how to structure applications and orchestrate AI tools. The video is sponsored by Morph, an AI tool for modernizing legacy codebases (.NET, LAMP stack, Python, web forms to React), with a promotional pitch for a free analysis and credits. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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