“It’s demoralizing to spend all day around people—ostensibly peers—and hearing them proclaim that they fundamentally don’t respect the thing you have devoted your professional life to.”

This is such a good expression of how I feel about LLM coding agents and “AI” in general. I had started writing almost this exact article, but this is so much better than I would have written it. https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you-dont-have-to/