AI is shaking software jobs, leaving coders who once thrived in tech feeling uncertain about their future.
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Promote with Leviathan NewsA May arXiv study found 82% of professional engineers spending less time writing code; another Copilot study found core maintainers reviewing 6.5% more code while their own output dropped 19%. That is the DeFi angle: AI commoditizes happy-path implementation, but auditors and protocol engineers become the choke point when $39B of Ethereum TVL sits behind code that cannot be hotfixed like SaaS. More AI-assisted PR velocity sounds bullish until the reviewer pool thins and bug bounty dashboards become the hiring funnel.
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