Thanks for the perspective.

You're welcome. I now feel inspired to try to change your mind, if you don't mind.

I would argue that "concepts" actually are more important than ever. Let's take my structured concurrency example. It doesn't matter here exactly what is, but if it ends up being as important as I think it will be, I likely want to write most concurrent code that way going forward.

However, it will likely be years until agents go to it unless deliberately steered in that direction. And if I want to make agents write it, I need to review it, and if I'm going to review, I need to understand it.

I think this is why I'm not pessimistic about the profession, it still feels like what I'm doing and learning matters.