SMRTR ProgrammingMay 5, 2026Dev.to

Am I a Developer or Just a Prompt Engineer?

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A senior developer reflects on how gradual AI adoption quietly eroded their coding identity — moving from writing and debugging with pride to prompting, skimming, and shipping code they didn't fully think through. The honest conclusion: the job title matters less than the ratio of thinking versus generating happening each day.

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