I agree with this mindset. There was a leap forward in productivity to accomplish your goals that modern IDEs/stacks brought and all the new tooling with it.

I agree with this mindset. There was a leap forward in productivity to accomplish your goals that modern IDEs/stacks brought and all the new tooling with it. What took massive teams before can now be done w/ a handful or even a single person. AI will just accelerate this type of work. As elitist as this sounds, when I hear people being afraid of stuff like this it makes me feel like we are in the period where people are getting paid well (overpaid) just to do very mundane stuff, the bare minimum or content to never further develop their skills. If that is your mindset, then of course it feels threatening. I would rather much play the role of conductor or an architect. There are times that I'm limited by my hands and mind and just grinding through variations of things I've done 100s of times before. If AI can fill that gap all the better. We will adapt. I'm sure one day that won't even be necessary. We can probably worry then.