# How AI-Assisted Coding Is Changing the Engineering Role

DevFeed: [How AI-Assisted Coding Is Changing the Engineering Role](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-end-of-determinism-what-s-left-for-engineers-when-ai-writes-the-code-22641.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.wix.engineering/post/the-end-of-determinism-what-s-left-for-engineers-when-ai-writes-the-code>)

Author: Wix Engineering

Published: 2026-07-19T10:33:35Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Wix Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/wix-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [prompting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prompting.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>), [writing-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writing-code.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article examines how AI-assisted coding is changing software engineering. It argues that writing code is increasingly an iterative dialogue involving prompting, evaluation, and pushback, while acknowledging engineers' uncertainty about the future of their work.

## Source excerpt

During 2026, I shipped code that I don't fully understand. It was written in a programming language I'm not even fluent in. A year ago, this would have been a fireable offense. There's no way I would have stood on a stage at a Wix Engineering conference, my employers in the crowd, and said that sentence out loud. Last week, it was just another Tuesday. And here's the part that's been keeping me up at night: I was proud of it. That's a paradox, right? If someone else wrote it, I can't be proud...