None of this is truly about the people (even though the sentiment is) - it's the elites vying for power against each other.
The internet is not tribal, but humans are. Those seeking to divide are pushing their hardest right now, because they know division will empower them more.
I have been using a similar skill (built over a few iterations) that builds whatever I ask, through a series of milestones, and then creates a full tutorial to follow in markdown and uses zola to turn it into a full static site.
90% of my Claude usage is getting it to write me guides, that I can then spend most of my time following to build the end results.
Keeps the brain healthy and also provides bespoke learning, rather than a generic course off the internet. Definitely a great use of AI.
Software engineering today is almost nothing like the role it was 30 years ago.
Maybe if you somehow stick with the same company for your entire career, it could feel somewhat similar... but I doubt it, as 'best practices' and many other things cause it to change.
The days of 'lifetime career' had already gone for most people, way before AI arrived.
It can use local/oss models, but it doesn't make it simple to do (easiest with ollama) and it's not clear what else you 'lose' by making that choice.
If you had a really good (big) local model, maybe it's an option, but on the more common smaller (<32b) models, it will have similar problems in looping, losing context, etc. in my experience.
It's a nice TUI, but the ecosystem is what makes it good.
Convenient and Cheap. That's all most people care about.
Privacy was already lost when everyone adopted mobile phones and gave them everything with constant location tracking, and used the free email accounts.
It's interesting that age-verification is the straw that breaks the camels back, but I guess porn has that power.
For many of us, we took those jobs because they aligned with our existing identities... we went into coding jobs because we enjoyed coding.
Unfortunately, most of the jobs (and the industry as a whole) evolved into something else that was all about money and growth and image, and not at all about the craft of programming or the creative nature it provided.
The more AI is used in development, the more it will have to be used for on-call and similar troubleshooting, as nobody will actually understand how it works, or certainly the few engineers that prompt it won't be able to cover all roles.
I don't think that's true, at least for everywhere I've worked.
Agile has completely changed things, for better or for worse.
Being a SWE today is nothing like 30 years ago, for me. I much preferred the earlier days as well, as it felt far more engineered and considered as opposed to much of the MVP 'productivity' of today.
How about if AI generates code in a file, then I copy/paste bits... like stack overflow ?