Simon Willison on 'My obituary for programming': the puzzle was the job
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-10-20
Simon Willison highlights Jeremy Scheff's poignant piece on what coding agents took from career programmers: programming had become one of the greatest jobs — paid to solve tricky logic puzzles, setting your own strategy and timeline. Willison's take: if you thrive on building working systems and don't care about the puzzles, LLMs keep giving; if solving the problems was the enjoyment, the loss is very real.
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