> c) Embrace it. [...] My money is on c) Agreed. I think developers who don't will be rare in a few years time. Just like developers who primarily rely on ass

> c) Embrace it. [...] My money is on c) Agreed. I think developers who don't will be rare in a few years time. Just like developers who primarily rely on assemblers (versus compilers) have basically become extinct. Like we sometimes, very rarely, need to inline some assembly, we will sometimes need to use the ol' gray matter to figure out a novel algorithm or something. I believe that avoiding learning these tools could be a existential issue for your present-day job. You don't have to come to depend on them, or use them daily, but you do need to understand how best to use (and not use) them.