No. I am having more fun coding than ever before. I am learning new things, building things I never had time to even consider exploring and building throw away prototypes just because. I still think learning to code is crucial and necessary to get production grade systems as of now.

Not even close. Not yet at least. AI is definitely helping with menial coding tasks, but the more complex stuff is still best left to the human in the loop. And the HitL is still needed to make sure the basic stuff is done well.

No

Claude Code is empowering developers to do deep higher level work.

E.g. database optimisations a Staff Engineer might do, such as designing a database partition or creating a complex composite index. The problem? When Claude recommends these advanced practices for solving a problem it is difficult to know where the foot guns lie or if Claude got it wrong.

No. Maybe it is a problem for the author and many others who fit this profile:

> I love to solve problems using Web Technologies. JavaScript/TypeScript (along with the foundation, that is, HTML and CSS)

"coding" is "dead" for Web Technologies and frontend roles (for those looking for inflated starting salaries at $200K+) because AI can do at least 98% of the work and can at best one shot this sort of work.

It is not yet dead but will soon be.

Soon if you want an Adobe image editor you'll just ask claude to make one for you. Or you want an office application that's compatible with all major formats, ask claude. You won't even have to look at the code. What point is there to maintain those outdated software now that you can create the perfect program for you on the fly. Zero code.

Sure some people will still code. Just like some people wear hair shirts and deny themselves any comfort.