I see two groups of optimistic people about all this. First, the “OMG I’ve always been a builder, I’m having so much fun”. Yeah, building hobby projects. They’

I see two groups of optimistic people about all this. First, the “OMG I’ve always been a builder, I’m having so much fun”. Yeah, building hobby projects. They’re called a hobby for a reason, they are not means to sustain yourself or your loved ones, particularly when the guy next to you can spin up an AI agent and ask “build me this”. Then the “coding was never the hard part/where I spent most of my time, engineering is still hard”. Yeah, maybe it still is, but for how long? 2 years? 3? Both strike me as naive and myopic, but I really wish I’m the one who’s wrong.