This is absurdly well written.

I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny.

Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

> You knew. And you signed off anyway. Because the alternative was losing the job, and the job was the mortgage, and the school fees, and the visa, and the version of yourself who'd fix it later once things stabilized.

I felt the pang in my bones reading this. All of us peons are just wading through this brave new world trying to do what we know is right but ultimately having no choice but to give in to life's needs.

As another commenter implied, the title a reference to this - https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks. Which is an incredible read as well

> anxiety around AI replacing developers

For the benefit of people who don't absorb the entire article (spoiler alert):

>> … AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. …

When I heard the repetition of an insignificant detail like the USB stick, I caught a whiff of Claude, and soon enough Pangram confirmed my suspicions: 26% AI generated.

At least I'm glad the ship paragraph doesn't light up as AI, that would have been a travesty...