Roles Reversed: Engineers Feel Obsolete While Non-Technical Folks Crave Technical Skills
craigsdennis · x · 2026-10-29
A resonant industry observation: "technical people are sad — they think their skills are now useless. Non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better."
A joke reply: "gotta spark that creativity in the daddies." The exchange captures the mindset inversion as coding agents go mainstream — engineers fear devaluation while business folks see an unprecedented opening.
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