<i>> Even as organizations push AI implementation, individual employees might resist due to concerns about how they'll be perceived.</i><p>I’ve been designing and developing software for 40 years. In my experience, those who resist new technology often find themselves left behind. Those who embrace it, genuinely learning how to apply it rather than just crafting feel-good narratives for leadership, tend to thrive.<p>My experience so far with AI and code design and generation is it's not a magic bullet. Like every tool that's come before that was supposedly going to replace developers and software engineers or dramatically reduce the need for developers and software engineers, it's not. It's another tool for developers and software engineers to use to get even more work done. Paradoxically, as more work gets done the backlog increases with even more work to do. It's been this way for the 40 years I've been in this industry, and the "old timers" when I started indicated it had been that way throughout their career, too.