I came to that realization yesterday as I was contemplating my usage of Windsurf and Claude Code, both for work and for my personal projects. I realized it's been a while since I actually wrote some code myself. I've been working on pipelines, security, infrastructure, and a little bit of coding — but that little bit I've done, I've asked AI to do it for me.
So it's been a while. I really can't quite remember when was the last time I started building something myself, coding it myself, which is interesting.
And I was thinking about that, and my career, and my future. I realized that I am not a coder anymore. I guess I'm still a software engineer — maybe I might become a software architect or whatever — but right now I don't think I'm a coder. And I guess I'll miss some aspect of it, but at the same time I am enjoying thinking at the higher abstraction level and just having AI do the typing for me. I still give it lots of rules and instructions about how I want things done, but I don't type anything anymore. Or at least, not the code. Sometimes I enter my prompt manually, sometimes I dictate it.
So yes, I guess this is the time when my career is going to take a turn. My way of doing things is going to change, and I'm a little bit scared and excited, 'cuz I just don't know what I'm going to be doing a year from now.