The dumbest version of the AI coding debate asks whether AI will replace developers. The better question is what kind of developer does AI reward? It doesn’t reward the person who blindly accepts output. Instead, it rewards the person who can tell, quickly and accurately, whether the output fits the system, the security model, the performance envelope, the user need, and the organization’s standards. In other words, AI rewards experience; it rewards people who know what “good” looks like.