I look at this very differently. There are a lot of grumpy people jealously guarding their "skills" and artisanal coding prowess getting really annoyed at the j

I look at this very differently. There are a lot of grumpy people jealously guarding their "skills" and artisanal coding prowess getting really annoyed at the juniors that come in and devalue what they do by just asking an AI to do the same thing and then moving on with their day. Young people are more mentally agile and most young people are now growing up with LLMs as a tool chain that was always there. I'm actually fairly senior (turning 50 next month) and I notice an effect that AI is having on my own productivity: I now take on mini projects that I used to delegate or avoid doing because they would take too much time or be too tedious. That's not the case anymore. The number of things I can use chat gpt for is gradually expanding. I notice that I'm skilling up a lot more rapidly as well. This is great because if you want to stay relevant, you need to adapt to modern tools and technology. That's nothing new of course. Changes are a constant in our industry. And there always are a lot of people that learn some tricks when they are young and then never learn anything new again. If you are lucky some of that stuff stays relevant for a few decades. But mostly a lot of stuff gets unceremoniously dumped by younger generations. The ability to use LLMs is becoming an important skill in itself and one that is now part of what I look for in candidates (including older ones). I don't have a lot of patience for people refusing to use tools that are available to them. Tell me how you use tools to your advantage; not how you have a tool aversion or are unwilling to learn new things.