SMRTR ProgrammingMay 25, 2026Hacker Noon

Developers Are Entering the Era of Steering and Orchestration

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Developers are deeply confused about AI's role in coding, and the disagreement is understandable — every extreme take is partly right. LLMs have real ceilings: architectural drift, software entropy, context degradation, and token costs. The developer role won't vanish, but it will shift from writing code to steering AI and building orchestration pipelines — a discipline increasingly called Harness Engineering.

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