> Anthropic's entire goal is to extinguish software development as a profession

They’re killing “programmer”, not “code”.

> I don't see how they wouldn't take out open source with it as a consequence

An analogy: the automobile industry sought to make working horses redundant, not to go door-to-door and kill horses. Horses getting chopped was an indirect economic consequence.

> If nobody even looks at code why would anyone bother to publish a library, much less care about making it maintainable?

For the exact same reasons as before. Agentic programming still integrates well with the existing ecosystem; I’ll tell agents which libraries to use, so I know what to expect.

While I don’t read the implementation of anything any more unless there’s a hard algorithmic problem, I do make an effort to read and document APIs thoroughly.

Interfacing is exactly the same, it’s just agents doing it.

> if everybody is vibe coding how long before your "average" dev has no idea what a library even is or why you'd want one?

That is a very good question.

Well it's not the dev who would want one, it's the agent, for the same reliability/security reasons that a dev historically would have.