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When coding is largely solved, what comes next? It’s been beaten to death by now, but coding has changed enough in the last six months that it’s almost moot to call it coding at all. Even for devs, the job was never only code. Sometimes you’re designing, mostly you’re maintaining and managing the complexity of what’s already there. The work usually split three ways, always unevenly: design, code, monitor. And now two of those are getting eaten. ...

May 15, 2026 · 6 min · Abhiram E