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Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

Then you are ignoring the massive number of people (artists, writers, actors, etc) who have lost work or are being threatened with losing work because of generative AI.

I'm really not. We're on the ground floor of a disruptive technology emerging into a capitalist system. It's no different than when cars came along, or airplanes, or CGI in films. If people like the product, then the paradigm will shift — the more they like the product, the faster it shifts.

I honestly feel bad for everyone impacted (my job as a dev is also in the crosshairs), but their skills aren't just vanishing, and their experience is gilded. Creativity is still the commodity. This just changes how we create, and we all just have to adapt and evolve as the new landscape is forged.