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Chris van Steenbergen
Chris van Steenbergen

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Will AI Replace Your Job? Yes — Unless You Learn to Lead It

Yes – if you don’t adapt, it will replace you.

Yes – if you ignore it, you will be left behind.

But if you embrace it, AI becomes a powerful ally — not a threat.


As a developer, I get this a lot:

“Is AI going to replace developers?”

And the answer is: Not the good ones.

AI can assist with small tasks. It can generate snippets. It can even help brainstorm ideas.

But when it comes to:

  • Rolling out a full application
  • Designing a secure, scalable architecture
  • Setting up complex infrastructure or clusters

That still requires human expertise. That still requires you.

We need architects

People who understand logic, structure, and strategy.

AI is only as smart as the instructions it gets.

So the question isn’t whether AI is a threat.

It’s whether you’ll lead with it – or get left behind by it.

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