[filoleg]

It depends on what their livelihood is.

If their livelihood is solving difficult problems, and writing code is just the implementation detail the gotta deal with, then this isn’t gonna do much to threaten their livelihood. Like, I am not aware of any serious SWE (who actually designs complex systems and implements them) being genuinely worried about their livelihood after trying out AI agents. If anything, that makes them feel more excited about their work.

But if someone’s just purely codemonkeying trivial stuff for their livelihood, then yeah, they should feel threatened. I have a feeling that this isn’t what the grandparent comment user does for a living tho.

[theappsecguy]

Unfortunately C -suite’s don’t quite see eye to eye to your logical breakdown here from my experience.

[filoleg]

I neither know nor care what the C-suite at my company thinks, as long as they provide me the resources necessary to get my job done effectively.

And, so far, it seems like they are fairly understanding, as they are happy about the output of my work. After all, they aren't paying me per-line-of-code delivered, they are paying me to solve problems. If they think that an LLM can replace me fully, they are more than welcome to try it and see how it works out for them.

The entirety of my report chain is just former engineers (with some of them being pivotal to things like GMaps SDK for iOS and such), so I am not really worried about them testing this theory out in practice. And if they do and decide that an LLM can replace me, well, there are always other jobs out there I can take. From my personal experience at this company, I will be just fine.