MY AI SKEPTIC FRIENDS ARE ALL NUTS

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A veteran developer rails against the many highly-skilled programmers still rejecting LLMs based on experiences with early chatbots, missing how modern coding agents autonomously navigate codebases, run tests, and iterate on failures. He dismisses common objections: developers already review all code before merging regardless of source, and hallucinations become irrelevant when agents can automatically compile, catch errors, and retry until tests pass. LLMs might displace developers but software engineers similarly automated away administrative roles like travel agents, record store clerks, and countless other professions.