[Swizec]

> Ever since LLM showed up there has been a noticeable urge to redefine the value proposition of software work to be less about what LLMs can do (write code) and more about what humans can do (write programs).

We’ve been having this debate for my entire career (since at least 2010). The suits have always misunderstood what programmers/engineers do and we’ve always pushed back explaining that it really is closer to city planning than to brick laying.

The agile manifesto (2001) was in large part a response to these pressures to think of programmers as the people who “just implement” what the smart suits have already figured all out.