Veteran coders fear becoming 'overpaid COBOL experts' as AI takes over programming
lucasmeijer · x · 2026-09-28
Programmer bmcnett tweeted an ominous feeling that coders who have done everything by hand for 45 years will gradually become like overpaid COBOL experts—skills intact but increasingly marginal. Game/graphics veteran Lucas Meijer reposted it, sparking resonance around whether senior hand-coding expertise is being pushed to the edges by AI-assisted development.
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