For years, I took pride in being the person who could quickly scan a codebase, navigate the terminal efficiently, and find the right information faster than most developers I worked with. Lately, though, I've realized AI agents outperform me in many of those areas. The answers I used to get by crafting Google searches and digging through Stack Overflow can now be found by AI in minutes. Some models are much faster than I am at identifying bugs, and they're often right. In my experience, GPT-5.5 through Codex can achieve close to a 90% success rate in bug detection and debugging. Even something like writing reports,which I used to spend a lot of time polishing, can now be drafted into something more complete than I'd produce from scratch. I don't really see AI agents as replacing developer...
