It's true that there are new skills to acquire (and that those with talents for the old skills may be less talented with the new skills).

It's absolutely not true that it "just" moved the difficulty around. If that were true then I'd be just as well off continuing to use my decades of programming expertise just as I always have; but the reality is I can get more done, and get better work done (depending on level of vibing), than ever before.

Thing is, though, making programming easier doesn't mean programmers will work less hard. That's how competitive markets work. LLMs made programming easier. Capitalism prevents workers from capturing that value.

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lelanthran a day ago | parent [-]

> It's true that there are new skills to acquire

What new skills?

	▲	furyofantares a day ago \| parent [-]
		Getting the most out of out agent. Knowing how to give it context that will cause it to succeed. Knowing what things it will succeed at and what it won't. Knowing how to tell when it's failing. Figuring out when it's appropriate to fully wrap your head around the details of a solution, and when it's appropriate to let the agent handle that and only know a bunch of properties of the solution. Knowing when it's appropriate to try 10 things, throw them all away, then go deep. Knowing how to learn from these things so you can make something better, not just faster.