I've been a professional software engineer since the 1990s. The pointy-haired boss has been trying to replace high-priced code artisans with cheap commodity la

I've been a professional software engineer since the 1990s. The pointy-haired boss has been trying to replace high-priced code artisans with cheap commodity labor since well before I came onto the scene. I remember when they hoped they could get away with hiring or off-shoring people who had just enough ability to glue together Microsoft COM objects or Java Beans, or graphical UML models or NPM packages. Using LLMs to produce software solutions definitely feels like a seismic shift in the game. Time will tell.