This is the most poignant essay I've ever read on the current situation. It feels extremely disorienting to have the very reason you got into your career dissolve in value seemingly in a matter of months. I'm one of the ones he describes as being "enthusiastic about the new steam engine" but I really do sense the bittersweetness of it all.Code is cheap now. "Good" code now means "code that does what it's supposed to and that AI can read and modify easily if it needs to."
What will society end up looking like as a result? How do software companies need to react to this?
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