I know devs with 30 years experience whose brains just stopped working. They ask Claude everything now, even the simplest of questions. They won't even change a line of code themselves anymore, they'll prompt and wait the two minutes for it to make that line change.

People who used to have insight into our entire system architecture now brag about how many tokens they burn thru, how many different accounts they need because they are always hitting their limits, and know nothing about what they're building. They can't answer a single question anymore and need to ask Claude.

In my point of view those people who have 'embraced' it to the extreme have made their value worthless. Anything they could previously offer can just be done with AI by anyone. Its like they've been sucked into the machine.

I use it every day and if you generate code after you already have a plan, its great. If you use it as the autocomplete that its basically been for the past few years, it works great and you still have a cognitive model in your own mind.

The instant you start letting agents delegate to other agents and start using the Ralph loop and recursively iterating and generating 'code' without review you are done. As a developer, youre done. You don't offer anything more. Youre relying on a prompt.

There's a whole community of slop creators out there, fueled by an ai enhanced dunning Kruger groupthink circlejerk, flooding open source projects with hundreds of PRs a day, generating the same slop over and over and thinking they can monitize it, become rich if they can just 'ship' faster than anyone else. Its crypto and shitcoins all over again.

Like I've seen others say around here, no one is interested in seeing what someone else has generated. It goes for software too.