Realize that the tech industry lives on hype. Every new piece of technology is 'going to upend everything'; according to those building it.

Us old programmers have live through about 100 of these hype cycles; so experience tells us to not panic.

AI is definitely a real thing like the internet, but it won't replace every programmer. Study it. Use it for things it is good at. Adapt to be useful in areas it is not good at.

> it won't replace every programmer

Of course it won't, but work is getting too demanding.

* management assumes work X shouldn't take 20 days anymore - they're partly right, if you do full vibe-coding you get result in 1 day

* depending on which part of the spectrum you went with (full vibe coding, complete manual, somewhere in between) - you understand that problems are getting accumulated, it is on you to prevent them or do rework in the future - I have been in many companies where rework is difficult to justify, its easier to prevent mess going in to the codebase, but not anymore, now leadership wants things to be delivered faster, and they ask to postpone quality work (because they are not responsible when things go down)