The Brutal Truth About Tech’s Future (and why most devs are sleepwalking into irrelevance)

Look, I’m gonna be real with you…

Everyone’s asking “is AI gonna replace developers?”

Wrong question.

The RIGHT question is: “Am I building skills that matter when AI can write basic CRUD apps faster than I can order coffee?”

Here’s what I’m seeing in 2025 that’s making me lose sleep:

The death of the “just learn to code” era is here.

Junior devs grinding LeetCode? Cool. AI just solved that problem in 0.3 seconds while you were still reading the question.

But here’s the plot twist nobody talks about…

The developers who are THRIVING right now? They’re not fighting AI. They’re dancing with it.

I know a dev who went from $60k to $180k in 18 months. Not because he learned React better. Because he learned to architect systems that AI can’t touch.

The skills that actually matter in 2025:

System design (AI can’t understand your business logic)

Problem decomposition (AI needs YOU to ask the right questions)

DevOps and infrastructure (because someone needs to deploy all that AI-generated code)

Understanding user behavior (AI writes code, humans understand pain)

Here’s what’s keeping me up at night though…

50% of bootcamp grads I talk to are still learning yesterday’s skills for tomorrow’s jobs that won’t exist.

The uncomfortable truth?

If your entire value proposition is “I can write React components,” you’re already replaceable.

But if you can look at a business problem, break it down, architect a solution, and guide AI to implement it? You’re not just surviving. You’re becoming essential.

The move that changed everything for me:

I stopped trying to code faster than AI. Started focusing on thinking better than AI.

Result? Best year of my career.

Bottom line: The future belongs to developers who amplify their thinking with AI, not those who compete with it on syntax.

The question isn’t whether AI will change development.

It’s whether you’ll change with it.