That must be hard to say with a straight face. Over the last 4-6 months I think very few corporate developers have handwritten any code at all and the “intelligence” growth from one model to the next is very tangible.
Also the handwritten code doesn’t remove the work. If anything, it makes the thinking more difficult (for me) because instead of thinking during the coding, I have to before and after (in iterations).
For big projects I actually go back to tradcoding some to make sure I understand the system, since I’m the one responsible.
Im convinced the people letting llms do their jobs are going to get replaced, not by agents but people who use them more reasonably.
Like a lot of tech before it I think the overriding theme is misapplication during a hype cycle.
EDIT: No, the top post is the new integer multiplication algorithm which was again found by agents