Comment by ModernMech
11 hours ago
Being a good programmer gives you special social status amongst people who value programming. You only have to look at how people talk about others as slop coders and seek to expand their coding reputations. Those people are the most threatened by AI because of how it implicates their carefully crafted personas as coding gurus and keepers of knowledge.
It also gives you a special social status amongst people who do not understand programming: nobody wants to talk to you, at least not about your job.