Post #615200

2026-03-09 18:47 UTC

I&#39;m a software professional and I have spent the last 40 years writing code almost daily. To me, the advent of LLM coding tools means that the job that I have been doing so far is gone. I am no longer going to write code for a living. Instead, my job as a software professional will be to guide LLMs to write the code for me. I did not ask for this, and I have not decided whether I enjoy my new activity more than I enjoyed my previous duties. But is that relevant? In a certain sense, I am a 1/

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@hanshuebner@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 18:53

member of the working class and have always been at the mercy of capital. So now, capital has changed the rules in which I am operating and my new life is fundamentally different. I do not feel that I get to choose. Gone are the days that made me feel like belonging to an elite class of workers that capital depended on. I'm at the end of my career, and it feels strange to experience that the field I've been operating in is taken over by machines. I can't imagine how this feels for the 2/

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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 21:55

@hanshuebner@mastodon.social Please don't give in to the propaganda and accept the framing that this job is "gone". The agentic tools are nowhere near as good as they say. The reality is that the industry is experiencing a major and traumatic (if somewhat rational) contraction after a wildly over-optimistic expansion towards the start of COVID, and "AI" is being blamed because it makes those products seem cool. The economic harm is real but it is not killer robots it's just a recession

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