Saw a post from an 8-year dev this week. He said any junior with an agent now matches his output, and he feels no pride left in it. It got huge, because a lot of people quietly feel the same.
I read it from the other side. I'm a designer, not an engineer. For years "can you build this" meant "find someone technical and pray they stay interested." Usually they didn't. AI took the thing that hurt that dev and handed it to me.
Same shift. Loss from one seat, freedom from another.
I'm shipping a Mac app solo right now, as someone who can't write a backend from scratch. Two years ago that was a joke.
We re all builders here, which means at some point we ve looked at a clunky developer workflow and thought, there has to be a better way.
We built ServBay as a traditional local environment manager helping developers install and configure 50+ services (PHP, Node.js, databases, domains, SSL, etc.) with a single click.
But with the explosion of coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex), the way we build has changed. Our "users" are no longer just human developers they are AI agents. This shift brought a frustrating new friction that we re currently tackling, and we d love to get your feedback on how you're navigating it.
