I believe that some people (myself included, at first) feel that A.I. threatened the craftsmanship and hard-fought-and-won understanding that comes from engineering software over time, without A.I.
Exactly. I wrote in the article: "If a company stops paying you, you'll stop showing up. If you stop showing up, they'll stop paying you. That's the core exchange. Everything else, the speeches, the slogans, the faux loyalty, the theater, is dressing on top of a fundamentally transactional relationship."