63% of developers have more work since non-devs began coding with AI, but most say it's good for the industry

Every labor-saving device ever invented came with the same promise and the same catch. The robot vacuum, for example, will clean your floors while you relax, and it does—right after you spend 15 minutes moving chair legs and coiling phone chargers so it doesn't eat them. The work didn't disappear.…

Every labor-saving device ever invented came with the same promise and the same catch. The robot vacuum, for example, will clean your floors while you relax, and it does—right after you spend 15 minutes moving chair legs and coiling phone chargers so it doesn't eat them. The work didn't disappear. It changed shape and moved upstream. AI coding tools do the same thing. The pitch was that AI would handle the tedious parts of software development and hand developers back their afternoons. The first

Source: Zapier AI — Published September 21, 2026 at 04:00 UTC — Category: Tools