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I’m fine. I’ve made a career out of automating work previously done by people. I’ve no right to complain now I’m less of a bottleneck in the process.

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This is what I don't get. I've spent my whole live using technology to automate work in some form or the other. I've reached for any/every tool that made that processes easier, that made it easier to build and maintain software. Now comes along a tool that can automate a ton of the things I couldn't automate, or it has the "time" to automate the things I never could get around to, it can write code consistently better than I can and faster, it writes the tests I hated writing, it "remembers" to do more checks - more consistently, it runs 10 commands to diagnose an issue while I'll still poking around on the box. It lets me finally tackle tech debt that was _never going to get done_ (I cannot stress this enough).

Perhaps part of the issue is that we’re using coding agents to automate away the thinking part of the job, resulting in more brittle systems where each individual as a smaller understanding of the whole?

Ok, nobody wants to do the boring, repetitive bits. We can automate these, but we always could. And we’re doing instead is destroying the value of any skilled knowledge work, for companies that real all the benefits, and what feels like meaningless work.

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