"AI" for computer programming

Experience: 30 years of computer programming. In 2023 my career veered off of large scale back-end development (DBs, APIs, etc.) and into "DevOps" (gluing dataflow tools together w/o building large bespoke ones in house). My title is "Data Engineer" but I wouldn't say I'm doing much of that. 2026-05-07 VSCode -> GitHub Copilot -> Claude Sonnet 4.6 is extremely good at AWS monkeying + Terraform.…