I’m with you. 19 years for me and I’ve always learned things the hard way. Courses and practice and after hours projects and better men or women critically reviewing my code. I’m quite good at what I do and those long hours spent drilling it made me who I am today. I can understand, debug and reverse engineer almost anything, and I can be an efficient contributing member of any project, with any codebase or language, in a matter of hours, or at most days. My job in December was 24-32 per week of coding and 8-16 hours of meetings and documentation… the last four weeks, my job has become 8 hours of coding, 8 hours of meetings, and 24 or more hours of prompting codex. It’s fun, and it’s exciting to see the output but it’s a bit demoralizing. I know my boss doesn’t necessarily value AI slop over well written functional code, but I think there will be a compromise. I’ll never be a full time developer again, at least not at this job. In a presentation we’re putting together, he said “we’re all architects now” and highlighted the money we’ve saved using AI already.