India, Aug. 23 -- Artificial intelligence tools are changing how software developers write and debug code, but not everyone is convinced the shift is positive. One software engineer has raised concerns that coding agents may be making developers faster while weakening their understanding of the systems they build.

The post was shared by X user Sambhav Gandhi. In the caption, he wrote, "AI has completely changed what I loved about software engineering." He recalled how developers once spent time understanding a problem, writing code, breaking it, debugging it and eventually taking ownership of the solution.

Gandhi said that process is changing as developers increasingly rely on AI agents to write code. "AI generates thousands of lines we...