Comment by taco_emoji
1 month ago
I don't care what my "actual" job is. I like writing code. I like exercising my brain in that way. I like building things.
I do not want to be a supervisor of AI agents. I do not want to engineer prompts, I want to engineer software.
I sympathise, in as much as I love writing code too, but I increasingly restrict that to my personal projects. It is simply not cost effective any more to write code manually vs. proper use of agents, and developers who resist that will find it increasingly hard to stay employed.
> It is simply not cost effective any more to write code manually vs. proper use of agents, and developers who resist that will find it increasingly hard to stay employed.
In practice, this isn't bearing out at all though both among my peers and with peers in other tech companies. Just making a blanket statement like this adds nothing to the conversation.
Devs are one of the last fields to be ruined by capitalism, but it has finally arrived here too.