alt Hacker NewsI simply will not spend my life begging and coaxing a machine to output working code. If that is what becomes of this profession, I will just do something else :)
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It would definitely be the profession if we stopped developing things today. Think about the idea of coding agents 2 years ago, I personally found them very unrealistic and am now coding exclusively with them despite them being either a neutral or net negative to my development time simply because I see the writing on the wall that in 6 mos to a year they will probably be a huge net positive and in 2-3 years the dismissive attitude towards adoption will start to look kind of silly (no offense). To me we are _just_ at the inflection point where using and not using coding agents are both totally sensible decisions.
If I wanted to do that, I'd just move into engineering management and work with something less temperamental and predictable - humans.
I'd at least be more likely to get a boost in impact and ability to affect decision making, maybe.