AI Is Creating an Identity Crisis for Software Engineers as Coding Shifts to Oversight

Summary

Business Insider reports on a growing identity crisis among software engineers as AI tools increasingly handle the core coding tasks that once defined their professional identity. The article highlights developers like Brock who describe feeling that the deep technical craft they spent years mastering — writing elegant, optimized code — is being commoditized by AI coding assistants and agentic tools. The shift is moving engineers from hands-on code crafting to overseeing AI agents, reviewing AI-