We're forgetting one thing: we (mere engineers) have control over nothing. The vast majority of us are at the mercy of executives and investors. Before AI we had some sort of grip because our skills weren't so much a commodity, and yeah, dealing with code and systems architecture and data and distributed systems wasn't that easy. Now AI is a tool not for us but for the higher-ups, they can finally commoditize software engineering and need only a small fraction of us. I see engineers around here fighting and discussing who'll be left behind (the 80%) and who'll remain because they're "more than mere coders" (the 20%)... what we don't discuss here is that we're all now at the mercy of Anthropic et al, and that's bad. The irony is that the vast majority of us use Anthropic, so we are just loading the guns for them to use them. It's sad, but we call it progress. Nuts