AI Coding Works. That’s the Problem

AI has already had a profound impact on developers over the last year, and many people are worried about what their future looks like in the industry. Let's look at the data on AI capabilities, and explore what may happen. Gamedev Courses: https://simondev.io Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simondevyt Follow me on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beer_and_code/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/iced_coffee_dev References: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10465 https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05229 https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-meta-0058b13c https://www.signalfire.com/blog/signalfire-state-of-talent-report-2025 https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/digest/ https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/2025-year-in-review/ https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/app/uploads/2025/11/CanariesintheCoalMine_Nov25.pdf https://cloud.google.com/resources/content/2025-dora-ai-assisted-software-development-report https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/godfather-ai-breakdown-society https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/pdf/20251106_01_en.pdf https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/digest https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/krafton-initiates-voluntary-resignation-program-after-record-high-quarterly-revenue https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report https://gdconf.com/article/gdc-2026-state-of-the-game-industry-reveals-impact-of-layoffs-generative-ai-and-more/ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/sthree-posts-8-drop-net-fees-announces-cfo-resignation-2026-03-17/ https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-creating-identity-crisis-for-software-engineers-coders-2026-3 https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it https://www.uber.com/en-CA/blog/ureview/ https://www.sonarsource.com/company/press-releases/sonar-data-reveals-critical-verification-gap-in-ai-coding/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/ten-months-with-cca-in-dotnet-runtime/ https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article-abstract/24/2/423/2631492 images from wikipedia: author: Tharunbr77 source: Wikimedia Commons file page license: CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Industrialisation.jpg author: dvgodoy source: Wikimedia Commons file page license: CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATransformer%2C_full_architecture.png