Something strange keeps happening in software engineering discourse: every week another headline claims coding is dead. Comments under almost every technical video ask the same question—should I still learn to code in 2026? Some engineering skills cannot be replaced with AI. Here is a clearer picture: AI replaces tasks, not engineers. Models can draft, debug, and refactor quickly. They do not sit in roadmap meetings, carry on-call context, or grow a junior through a stuck afternoon. People said arithmetic was doomed when calculators spread; then encyclopedias when Wikipedia arrived; then …
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