Comment by kiitos

> if you can't look at a work week and spot huge fractions of work that you're doing that isn't fundamentally discerning or creative, but rather muscle-memory rote repetition of best practices you've honed over your career, you're not trying (or you haven't built that muscle memory yet). What's happening is skeptics can't believe that an LLM plus a couple hundred lines of Python agent code can capture and replicate most of the rote work, freeing all that time back up.

No senior-level engineer worth their salt, and in any kind of minimally effective organization, is spending any meaningful amount of their time doing the rote repetition stuff you're describing here. If this is your experience of work then let me say to you very clearly: your experience is pathological and non-representative and you need to seek better employment :)