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Simon Willison·· 12d ago

My obituary for programming

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Jeremy Scheff's obituary laments the decline of programming as a career for those who enjoyed solving logic puzzles, arguing that coding agents and LLMs have turned programming into a managerial role where humans define strategy while AI solves the puzzles. It contrasts the past, where programmers were paid to solve tricky problems that 'regular people just couldn't do,' with a future where AI handles the complex logic, leaving human programmers to focus on system building or losing enjoyment if puzzle-solving was central to their work.

Source: Simon Willison · simonwillison.net