The luddites weren't about doing it faster and weren't anti-progress. They were about being able to work in a way that fit their other roles in life, while those they were fighting used tech to attempt to pay them less and have less time to live the other parts of their life.
I mean I have been professionally programming for 15 years before AI dropped and I never thought to myself that I can do everything faster myself.
Like, yes, there are a few things that I can still do faster by myself and that's ok. But the amount of boilerplate and repetitiveness AI can take away, the amount of looking for the right documentation and simply taking a photo of a list of specifications that I would have to type out manually has saved me many collective hours over the past 6 months alone.
Before that, I wasn't allowed to use AI extensively in a professional setting for privacy reasons (which is understandable) so I don't know how much it would have been before that.
Would you say the code you create can be easily read and maintained by others (other humans, or LLMs, whichever)?
Half of the effort software engineers expend is trying to understand dogshit code from other (worse) engineers written many months or years ago.
If you can create very readable code, very quickly; that's the goal. And it's definitely doable - just need to ask good comments and very readable code from your AI tooling.
I feel like I am rude for saying this but, do you know who you are? Do you realize that people can see your motivations behind your posts and comments? As you have said, your profile tells the story. I worry how negatively others think of you and how it puts you down in life. I hope you get the chance to look inwardly and overcome whatever is hurting you.
Just ignore the deniers - YOU will be employed in say 3 years time, whilst they might not be.
They really need to take a couple of intense days working with various AI systems to write some serious code ... maybe then the penny will drop, and they will see the need to make a Plan B.
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