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i'm not against ai making software dev accessible to everyone. i actually love it. but there's an annoying side effect: people with zero idea what the sdlc is are now lecturing folks who've spent years doing this job. from a very high horse.

devs who shipped software to millions, even billions of users without ai deserve some basic respect. if not for them, then at least for what they know. and when you look at the work of the people doing the lecturing, it's dunning-kruger at full volume.

sure, all of it can be learned, and ai can make that faster. but ai explaining the sdlc to you is not the same as actually doing it. turning it into practice and reflexes takes time, plus a bunch of social skills.

even today's agentic workflows evolved from 20-30 years of sdlc. "plan first, then build" wasn't discovered last year. prds weren't invented alongside you. using a process you learned yesterday to lecture people who've fought for it for 20 years looks pretty funny from the outside.

and the sdlc isn't just writing code. there's politics, crisis management, all the messy parts of the job nobody tells you about. ai doesn't give you those. (at least not yet)

people who've been around these processes, even outside the coding side, are usually way more on point. but "i was a greengrocer yesterday, shipped a mobile app today, and i'm better than all of you" is a bit much 😂 (no shade to greengrocers, i couldn't run one either)