Am I going to spend the rest of my career reviewing AI generated code?

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Summary

A developer expresses concern about the increasing reliance on AI-generated code, fearing that their career will devolve into merely reviewing AI output rather than engaging in creative problem-solving and coding.

EDIT: please read all of the post before commenting, quite a few people understood nothing (or the opposite) of what I meant and it's sad I've been thinking, over the last year developers have started to rely on genAI quite a lot, I see people around me boast that they haven't written a single line of code in months ​ Quite often when colleagues show me ideas they have to solve a problem it's a markdown list clearly made by an AI ​ I feel like people are so enthusiastic about just handing over their job to genAI models ​ I've been told that if I am a good software engineer I should be ok with supervising AI while they write code for me "so I can focus on the bigger picture" ​ I know I'm a good engineer I can design solutions and lead teams but I also like solving problems myself, I like coding, I like cracking that complex SQL query that makes it run 10x faster, I like writing efficient code and I like the gotcha moment when I solve a complex problem ​ And yet people around me are so eager to get to a point where you can just hand over a ticket to an agent and they do everything themselves... Where all that's left for humans is reviewing the PR (unless you have another agent do that) ​ Am I the only one that actually enjoys the job? I am curious what the general feeling is in regards to handing over planning and development work to agents EDIT: Thank you for all the replies I got a lot of good insights from everyone, both from a point of view of the future might not be as boring as I envision it and stuff to do to make my use of agents more engaging and fun
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