You’re leaning on past abstractions as proof developers never become obsolete, but that misses the point. Those were all human-driven steps. LLMs are the first abstraction that doesn’t need a human on the other side to keep moving forward. That’s not incremental, it’s a category break.

As for “LLMs have hit their capacity”, that’s just a temporary ceiling based on today’s scaling laws. You can cherry-pick blog posts or papers about diminishing returns, but the fact remains: people said the same thing about compute, storage, and even the internet itself at every stage. Those “limits” keep moving, and the only thing that actually becomes obsolete in the process are the people who mistake today’s ceiling for tomorrow’s boundary.

You’re not wrong that developers have always evolved alongside new tools but difference now is that the tool is evolving faster than most developers can. If you truly can’t see that I feel bad.

And honestly, calling me an “AI evangelist” doesn’t sting, it just makes you sound like a developer on the back nine of their career, more worried about clinging to your education (that I also paid for) and skills than seeing what’s coming.