I had an heavy ai user on my team say that “those who learn how ti use the tools wont get fired, those who dont are gone”. I used it to generate a bunch of cfn and it worked fine from an example and a couple line prompt, doesnt seem that hard to learn to me.

Now reviewing the 1k lines it generated and making sure its secure, thats going to take me longer than writing it by hand.

It can be implicit though.

The llm person having a blast is compelled to push everyone to see what they see. If they have a leadership role at their company, then the getting-left-behind drum does get banged in the form of "ai native company transformation" initiatives.

I have personally heard people say this at work. It's not a strawman, there really is a message of "you'll be left behind" out there.

I don't know for devs, but that's the message we get from upper management.

Lots, and not just online. I run into them regularly in my office, and so do my friends and family in tech. One of my coworkers is now spending all his time writing SKILLs, he's convinced that we'll never need to solve operational issues again if we have the right SKILLs.

You're using a no-true-Scotsman to accuse the author of a strawman.

Consider that.

Devs don't make hiring and firing decisions.

I think FOMO-aligned ai stuff is fairly common on HN, doesn't mean it's always deliberately manipulative.

The executives are, not the devs.