Engineers mourn their skills while non-technical users scramble to learn agents
petergyang · x · 2026-10-29
Peter Yang amplifies an odd industry mood: technical people are depressed believing their skills are now useless, while non-technical people are desperately trying to get more technical so they can use agents better. He jokes about raiding WoW bosses instead — a snapshot of engineer anxiety in the agent era.
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