For all of human history, we’ve invented tools to make our lives easier. The spear, the wheel, the printing press, the internet—all of them created by these big brains of ours so we could use our big brains less.

AI is just one invention in a long line that has changed the way we create and consume things. Although where AI will take humanity as a whole is yet to be seen (personally, I rank its current transformative effect somewhere below the internet and above the Kindle), it’s certainly been a radical shift for the tech world. AI tools have shaken up nearly all facets of tech and software—which, some may say , is the bedrock of our modern society—and has changed the way tech workers around the world navigate their everyday tasks and workflows.

This is especially true of how we create code: in 2023, GitHub purported that, of its users, 46% of developers’ code across all languages was generated by GitHub Copilot . As of April 2026, 75% of all the new code at Google is AI-generated. Source?…