i don't think we're going back to pre-ai era anytime soon.
My own experience, probably similar to a lot of people's own experience is that i haven't written code by hand (at least 10 lines) in 2026, i can work with any web/backend framework/language because LLMs can.
I'm now an architect / team leader, i manage a team of devs (LLM) and i mostly spend my day providing guidance/suggestions and making architectural choices.
I've never built things that fast, it makes no sense to hand write code anymore as it's so slow. When i run out of tokens, i just wait (doing some reviews, code reads, etc ...), but it doesn't make sense to spend a day writing some code that gonna be generated in a few minutes when tokens are back ...
Obviously this is my personal experience, there's other industries / use cases / etc ... where hand writing code makes sense. But it's not my case anymore.
My own experience, probably similar to a lot of people's own experience is that i haven't written code by hand (at least 10 lines) in 2026, i can work with any web/backend framework/language because LLMs can.
I'm now an architect / team leader, i manage a team of devs (LLM) and i mostly spend my day providing guidance/suggestions and making architectural choices.
I've never built things that fast, it makes no sense to hand write code anymore as it's so slow. When i run out of tokens, i just wait (doing some reviews, code reads, etc ...), but it doesn't make sense to spend a day writing some code that gonna be generated in a few minutes when tokens are back ...
Obviously this is my personal experience, there's other industries / use cases / etc ... where hand writing code makes sense. But it's not my case anymore.