Only The Zealous Will Remain
For most of modern history, people learned to code for two reasons:
💰 Money
💼 Career stability
But that’s about to change.
Artificial Intelligence is breaking down the barriers that made coding a specialised, high-paid profession. AI writes code faster, cheaper, and (in many cases) better than most junior devs.
So what happens when the financial incentive to learn coding disappears?
Simple:
Only the passionate will be left standing.
AI Has Made Code Cheap (But Ideas Priceless)
Let’s be honest—AI has turned coding into a commodity.
Need a website?
ChatGPT.
Need an app prototype?
AutoGPT.
Need to automate a workflow?
There’s an AI tool for that.
The act of writing code is no longer the bottleneck. The ideas behind the code are.
And the people who will spend hours crafting, experimenting, and building just for the love of it?
Those are the ones who’ll thrive.
The New Coders: Passion-Driven, Not Paycheck-Driven
Once, coding was about landing a high-paying job at a FAANG company or freelancing for $100/hour.
Now? AI has erased much of the “easy money.”
If you’re not genuinely curious, if you’re not the type who stays up late tinkering just because you want to…
You probably won’t bother coding at all.
And that’s a good thing.
The field is shifting from being crowded with careerists to being driven by passion.
It’s the garage tinkerers, indie hackers, and curious minds who will dominate this new wave.
AI Is the Great Equalizer of Execution
What used to take teams of developers months can now be done by one person and an AI in a weekend.
The people who are still coding (or prompting AI to code) aren’t doing it because they have to.
They’re doing it because they can’t not do it.
They have ideas they’re obsessed with.
They’re testing things that might not work—just to see if they can.
They’re building products, apps, and tools for fun.
And sometimes, those fun side projects turn into the next big thing.
Passion Is the Moat Now
When AI writes 90% of the code, what makes someone a great “coder” isn’t their technical skill—it’s their vision and persistence.
• Do they have the patience to keep refining an idea?
• Do they love the problem enough to obsess over it?
• Are they having fun building?
In a world where everyone could code with AI, the people who choose to code anyway are the ones to watch.
Final Thought
AI isn’t killing coding.
It’s purifying it.
It’s stripping away the noise and leaving behind the ones who are in it for the love of the game.
The future of coding?
Pure passion, amplified by AI.