--- title: What Skills Do Developers NEED To Have In An AI Future? description: Kent Beck and Trisha Gee discuss how AI coding tools are changing developer work but not eliminating core skills. They argue that fundamental abilities like... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-skills-do-developers-need-to-have-in-an-ai-future--lhvqzbixd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Skills Do Developers NEED To Have In An AI Future? | daily.dev og:description: Kent Beck and Trisha Gee discuss how AI coding tools are changing developer work but not eliminating core skills. They argue that fundamental abilities like... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-skills-do-developers-need-to-have-in-an-ai-future--lhvqzbixd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LhvqzBiXd.png og:image:alt: What Skills Do Developers NEED To Have In An AI Future? 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. # What Skills Do Developers NEED To Have In An AI Future? **[Continuous Delivery](https://daily.dev/sources/continuousdelivery)** · 24 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kent Beck and Trisha Gee discuss how AI coding tools are changing developer work but not eliminating core skills. They argue that fundamental abilities like architectural judgment, refactoring timing, testing strategy, and communication remain critical—and become more valuable as AI handles code generation. 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