If you can't do the job without AI, you can't do the job.

Spoiler alert: if you can't do the job, you're not going to be doing the job much longer.

'If you can't build a TODO list app using only punchcards, then you can't do your job...'

Obviously our ambitions expand due to better tools. I now commit to and deliver much more work than before LLMs, and — before then — ditto for frontend frameworks, generation 4 languages etc.

There are projects I now start without thinking twice that I never would have considered a few years ago.

That's what productivity looks like, and it makes you more valuable, and your job more secure (up until the ASI kills us all...).

How is this different from saying “if you can’t do the job without the compiler, you can’t do the job”?

AI allows you to do things you could not do before so it is fair to say they can't do the new job without AI.

in before the mods accuse you of being "too mean"