AI collapsed my job into three roles and I had to relearn all of them

Short summary

A developer shares a firsthand account of AI collapsing frontend, backend, and QA into one role. AI closed the syntax gap instantly but couldn't provide the judgment that comes from having broken things in a specific layer. The key insight: AI lets one person cover three disciplines' ground, but doesn't make them as good as three specialists. The author recommends reading others' AI-assisted diffs in unfamiliar layers before trusting your own first draft.

• •AI collapsed three dev disciplines into one role — syntax gap closed fast, judgment gap did not
• •Tests that pass prove nothing about whether the thing tested actually matters
• •Recommendation: read more work in unfamiliar layers than you write, like an apprentice

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