Comment by pton_xd

I agree, the profession is dying and will soon be dead. There is no need to understand code. LLM coding agents make all sorts of suboptimal decisions but it doesn't matter; they just keep churning until it works. Staying in the loop to read and evaluate the program line-by-line only slows the process down.

I think the coding tools are not good enough yet so we can kinda-sorta hang on, but they will be within a few years.