Then let the code monkeys be insulted then.

Good riddance to the overpaid coders.

And hello cheap replacements!

The bottom line has improved. And that's good for business. Which was the only thing that mattered. Regardless of any reactionary sentimentalism.

The real insult… “That’s a five minute change”

Chainsaw isn't better than the lumberjack.

An excellent read. However, this part is wrong:

> Those decades spent fighting memory bugs in C or C++, with the scars to prove it, are worthless.

The world runs on C and C++, with billions of lines of code. That code isn't going away. And with AI, maintaining, debugging, and updating it is becoming much easier.

It's almost as if the business-side/idea-guy founders never really respected their tech co-founders/CTO's etc. The same people hyping up (beyond it's current due) AI are the business side that are a little too eager to dump what they thought was a necessary burden in "their" newest venture.

writing code is hard. building a successful product is harder, and is only sometimes a consequence of the code.

Well written. I completely agree with you.

It seems to me like two things can be (and are) true: programming can be hard in absolute terms, and is also the easy part of the thing that we call “software engineering.”

whenever someone says this I assume they mean a crud react app which is a small part of what 'coding' encompasses

long said that success is 1% idea, 9% implementation and 90% other stuff like marketing that I don't care about.