[adamredwoods]

Computers did feel like magic... until I read code, think about it, understood it, and could control it. I feel we're stepping away from that, and moving to a place of less control, less thinking.

I liked programming, it was fun, and I understood it. Now it's gone.

[autoexec]

It's not gone, it's just being increasingly discouraged. You don't have to "vibe code" or spend paragraphs trying to talk a chatbot into doing something that you can do yourself with a few lines of code. You'll be fine. It's the people who could have been the next few generations of programmers who will suffer the most.