Does AI will replace developers?
Recently I posted on this sub-reddit asking suggestions on Django project ideas. I wanted to start my first Django project, hence I asked. On my computer, I was testing and playing with local LLM models using tools like ollama and LM Studio. Few days ago, Google released Gemma 4 series of open models. So I downloaded Gemma 4B model and started testing it. Till now, I only used ChatGPT and Claude chatbots. But I didn't know about agentic coding tools until today which blowed my mind and and let me question myself. Is it worth learning coding? Would AI replace most developers? I think so. Let me tell you what happened and how my Django project is connected to this.
While playing with Gemma model, I saw youtube videos to know it's capability and also how can I use it locally. I saw people are using it with Claude code. This is the first time that I got to know about it. I believed all those tools are for subscribed users and for Enterprise companies. On YouTube, I got to know that we can use local models with Claude code. So I tried Claude Code using Gemma 4 model. It didn't work well. I checked YouTube and got to know that Qwen 3.5 9B models is best local model for agentic tasks. Gemma model had some problem. So I downloaded that in LM Studio and used with Claude code. Now I wanted to test it. So, I asked it to build me a fully functional e-commerce Django project with orders, order history, users, items and etc...and told it to ask me if it requires any more information. It asked me questions on the project like : do the project need to be basic or fully functional with advance features, what type of database to use and what type of UI etc. Then it started coding. I gave all permissions to run in terminal. It took like almost close to an hour. It created complete Django project. I was shocked. I checked the project files. It created all files.
I tried to run it. But there are errors. Okay now I thought may be the model is not capable enough. And wanted to drop further testing. At this moment, on twitter Open AI posted they released a new version of their agentic tool called Codex. Says it's a free app for windows and Mac OS. I downloaded it and it looks similar to ChatGPT but with many options. So dropped the Django project folder in it and said that this project is a Django web application but when tried to run, getting errors and asked it to fix all the errors.
It read whole project and all the files in it and started fixing each error by itself. It took like 5 to 10 minutes. Now I tried to run the project and to my surprise the Django app was running perfectly. The app contains User registration, orders, items, order history and everything is working fine.
This was a huge surprise. I wanted to start a Django project myself and I know that it may take few weeks or more to atleast bring the project to a proper shape. But these agentic tools are doing all that within hours. If AI can do all this with simple instructions in English then wouldn't it replace some developers like entry and junior developers in companies? What about jobs for those roles? Thanks for reading this. I would like to know your thoughts on this topic.