What work is is always changing.

Construction used to involve shoveling shit and dirt. But thanks to technology road workers sit in air conditioned cubicles manipulating hydraulic levers, gaining tremendous leverage.

Yes, sometimes they go outside to dig around fragile stuff with a shovel - old pipes, the odd archaeological find..

With AI, we gained “hydraulic levers for knowledge work”.

What will your “comfy air conditioned cabin” look like in that analogy?

I love programming without having to also type. My days involve watching the computer type code, making zero typos and zero mismatched variable names. When it refactors it keeps the comments updated, making that industry truism that “comments lie” obsolete. In my codebase 100% of the comments are true and up to date.

For $100/mo (Anthropic) I don’t have to code by hand and can focus on whether I’m building what customers want and need.