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2026-08-01 21:34
AI collapsed my job into three roles and I had to relearn all of them
A message landed in my inbox a few months back. New scope, same title. Frontend, backend, and QA, folded into one role, because the team now had AI to cover the rest.
I had shipped backend work for years. The frontend half of our codebase, and the QA half, I had barely touched. Reading someone else's frontend patterns for the first time, at speed, with a deadline attached, is its own skill and I ...