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The hype cycle wants you to believe that AI will make developers obsolete. It won't. What it will do is make the gap between good developers and bad ones wider than ever. AI is an amplifier — it makes competent people faster and incompetent people more dangerous.

The developers who understand what they're building, why they're building it, and how to validate the output — they're more valuable now, not less. The ones who copy-paste AI output without understanding it? They were already on borrowed time.

TL;DR: Learn the fundamentals. AI can't replace what you don't have.

After years in the .NET ecosystem, transitioning to Spring Boot felt like moving from a fully furnished apartment to one where you pick every piece of furniture yourself. The freedom is real. So is the decision fatigue.

This guide covers the mental model shifts: dependency injection patterns that feel different but aren't, the annotation-vs-configuration spectrum, and the quiet joy of realizing that both ecosystems solved the same problems in remarkably similar ways.

TL;DR: The grass isn't greener. It's just a different shade.