There are two things that I want to address here. For one I still call a Taxi when I need one. Happy to pay a bit of extra to get a professional driver. I don'

There are two things that I want to address here. For one I still call a Taxi when I need one. Happy to pay a bit of extra to get a professional driver. I don't want to bash on people using other services or people providing those, but it's not for me. Similarly my clients call me and my colleagues because they have a problem that needs solving, we solve it partly with programming because that is how we can solve it exactly, reliably and freely. We don't typically use low-code tools because they can trap us and they don't scale with our ability and understanding, and the productivity they promise is true for narrow uses. Our clients don't use them because it will and has taken them too much time to learn and use them with mediocre to (really) bad results, they want the problem to be taken care of and are willing to make a trade. The second point is that I simply refuse to stop adapting and learning. I'm happily adopting technology into my repertoire when the tradeoff is worth it. Analyzing and understanding those tradeoffs is part of the job. Expanding knowledge is part of the job. And this was always true for anyone who works in software related fields, our community always has had to adapt, adopt and evolve, balancing pragmatism and curiosity.