Kaseya CTO Pratik Wadher says AI is shifting the developer's job from writing code to writing specifications. His team used Anthropic coding agents to help rearchitect the storage layer of Kaseya's products, completing the rewrite in six weeks. The engineers wrote the spec, iterated on it, and peer-reviewed it with critique agents before the AI generated the code.
Wadher argues that the best engineers will be those who can design, architect, and think clearly about what needs to be built. Basic tasks, he predicts, will be handled by AI, making domain expertise and precise communication more valuable. He also notes that documentation, long disliked by engineers, becomes critical because the spec is what gets checked into GitHub and must reliably produce the same code each time.
The Register reports that some open-source projects still prefer human-written code, while others take a more pragmatic view of AI tools. Wadher acknowledges a split within his own team: some engineers embrace the new workflow, while others are hesitant. Still, he sees the fun in coding as seeing the impact and iterating, not the mechanical act of writing code itself.