> And also that on the other side of that grief is something new and potentially exciting

Well, no, for a lot of us, there really is no other side. Slop farming is not software engineering and it never will be; scribbling some Markdown that begs agents to omit bugs is not equivalent to using high-level languages with thoughtful abstractions to directly define program behavior. I didn't want to be a manager when I worked in the industry and I certainly don't want to be one now. Moreover, it's downright offensive for a purported expert to defer their expertise to a SAAS black box.

On the bright side, we will probably (eventually) self-segregate into communities that code however they want and leave the other side the fuck alone.