I always find these "death of the X" articles frustrating. Books didn't stop existing when the radio came out. Radio didn't stop existing when television was i

I always find these "death of the X" articles frustrating. Books didn't stop existing when the radio came out. Radio didn't stop existing when television was invented. If you go back in time a thousand years, people were complaining that an increase in literacy would damaging peoples' memorization skills. People will still write code for consumption by other humans by hand. Some companies, though probably not most, will still prefer it. AI will change the industry - IS changing the industry - but things don't "end". They just look different, or are less popular. There is enough for us to worry about and try to figure out how to respond to without the histrionics. Also, on a related note, "Idiots are vibecoding bad stuff" is not the same as "engineers are using AI tools to do good work more quickly," and we should stop conflating it.