> LLMs are absolutely causing us to lose something very important

The time wasted thinking our craft matters more than solving real world problems?

The amount of ceremony we're giving bugs here is insane.

Paraphrasing some of y'all,

> "I don't have to spend a day stepping through with a debugger hoping to repro"

THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM!

We're turning sand into magic, making the universe come alive. It's as if we just got electricity and the internet and some of us are still reminiscing about whale blubber smells and chemical extraction of kerosene.

The job is to deliver value. Not miss how hard it used to be and how much time we wasted finding obscure cache invalidation bugs.

Only algorithms and data structures are pure. Your business logic does not deserve the same reverence. It will not live forever - it's ephemeral, to solve a problem for now. In a hundred years, we'll have all new code. So stop worrying and embrace the tools and the speed up.