AI shatters dev egos, but nerds will just go deeper down the stack
bendee983 · x · 2026-09-25
Responding to ryanflorence's take that AI shattered dev egos, bendee983 argues these takes miss why many became engineers: love of the cognitive challenge, coding since their teens, long before salary mattered. With AI letting anyone churn out code, he predicts the nerds will go deeper down the stack (e.g., hardware) or find other fields to channel their obsessiveness.
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