AI Didn’t Kill Coding. It Killed Your Identity.
The shift to AI-assisted coding isn’t just a productivity upgrade — it’s an existential crisis for developers. Every line of AI-generated code accepted without understanding triggers a grief cycle: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The developers who will thrive aren’t those who resist the change, but those who process the loss of their craft and redefine mastery as forensic auditing of machine output.