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The age of token efficiency, the age of libraries

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Software developers are increasingly shifting from manual coding to orchestrating AI-generated content, with a significant majority now utilizing tools like Claude and Copilot. This transition marks a fundamental change in the developer's role, moving from implementation to review and prompt engineering.

Not so long ago, six months, perhaps, I was seriously convinced that AI would not replace us, the programmers. It would just help us; it would be our assistant. Back then I was mostly firing off one-off prompts in ChatGPT to help me with the odd algorithm, but to my delight, I still hand-crafted nearly all of my code.

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