> Most software engineers are seriously sleeping on how good LLM agents are right now, especially something like Claude Code.

Nobody is sleeping. I'm using LLMs daily to help me in simple coding tasks.

But really where is the hurry? At this point not a few weeks go by without the next best thing since sliced bread to come out. Why would I bother "learning" (and there's really nothing to learn here) some tool/workflow that is already outdated by the time it comes out?

> 2026 is going to be a wake-up call

Do you honestly think a developer not using AI won't be able to adapt to a LLM workflow in, say, 2028 or 2029? It has to be 2026 or... What exactly?

There is literally no hurry.

You're using the equivalent of the first portable CD-player in the 80s: it was huge, clunky, had hiccups, had a huge battery attached to it. It was shiny though, for those who find new things shiny. Others are waiting for a portable CD player that is slim, that buffers, that works fine. And you're saying that people won't be able to learn how to put a CD in a slim CD player because they didn't use a clunky one first.

I think getting proficient at using coding agents effectively takes a few months of practice.

It's also a skill that compounds over time, so if you have two years of experience with them you'll be able to use them more effectively than someone with two months of experience.

In that respect, they're just normal technology. A Python programmer with two years of Python experience will be more effective than a programmer with two months of Python.

> Nobody is sleeping. I'm using LLMs daily to help me in simple coding tasks.

That is sleeping.

> But really where is the hurry? At this point not a few weeks go by without the next best thing since sliced bread to come out. Why would I bother "learning" (and there's really nothing to learn here) some tool/workflow that is already outdated by the time it comes out?

You're jumping to conclusions that haven't been justified by any of the development in this space. The learning compounds.

> Do you honestly think a developer not using AI won't be able to adapt to a LLM workflow in, say, 2028 or 2029? It has to be 2026 or... What exactly?

They will, but they'll be competing against people with 2-3 more years of experience in understanding how to leverage these tools.

"But really where is the hurry?" It just depends on why you're programming. For many of us not learning and using up to date products leads to a disadvantage relative to our competition. I personally would very much rather go back to a world without AI, but we're forced to adapt. I didn't like when pagers/cell phones came out either, but it became clear very quickly not having one put me at a disadvantage at work.