>Personally, I just can’t find it in me to be that self-interested

Caring about your ability to pay your bills, and support your family is "self-interested" in the same way that choosing to not drive into oncoming traffic is "self-interested".

I'm sick and tired of hearing about how LLMs are somehow going to cultivate a society of "creative people full of ideas" when increasingly the people who are using it the most are accepting the LLMs ideas without question.

It's like assuming that the advent of fast food will create a society of people who exercise and otherwise eat well, to balance it.

Reminds me of when the crypto people were saying system used almost exclusively for money laundering was going to facilitate a financial revolution.

I think you will always need a button pusher. whether it is the CEO, the product manager or the developer themselves. You will need some sort of overseer who will take accountability of the system that is generated by the AI.

>I think you will always need a button pusher.

Okay. Is that job going to provide a competitive salary, with good benefits? More importantly, is it going to be personally fulfilling?

Software developers who have adopted agentic coding are worse than class traitors. They are actively sabotaging the entire careers future viability, and have made me ashamed to think anyone in this industry was worthy of the title "engineer".

"Compositors who have adopted Linotype machines are worse than class traitors. They are actively sabotaging the entire trade’s future viability, and have made me ashamed to think anyone in this industry was worthy of the title “printer.”"

"Weavers who have agreed to tend a fourth loom are worse than class traitors. They are actively sabotaging the entire trade’s future viability, and have made me ashamed to think anyone in this industry was worthy of the title “weaver.”"

"Handloom weavers who have adopted power looms are worse than class traitors. They are actively sabotaging the entire trade’s future viability, and have made me ashamed to think anyone in this industry was worthy of the title “weaver.”"

Tale as old as time.

Yes. The only rational response to the coming AI wave is to get out of the business of selling intelligence for money. The machines will out-think you for cheaper.

The author also has agents write their blog posts.

It's not just speculation, we have data from multiple studies at this point that suggest leaning on AI for productivity leads to skill depreciation across domain.

Really? Have any data to show that software is getting "faster"?

>Boats didn't go away with the demise sailing as a commercially viable mode of transport.

No, but there's now more people who know how to engineer reliable ships then ever before.

In 10 years, how many people will still understand the codebases they work on?