- if your response to LLMs taking over is "they're bad and its not going to happen" i think you've basically chosen to flip a coin, and that's fine, you might be right (personally I do think this take is right, but again, its a coin flip)
- if your response is "engineering is about a lot more than writing code" you're right, but the "writing code" part is like 90% of the reason why you get paid what you do, so you've chosen the path of getting paid less, and you're still flipping a coin that LLMs won't come for that other stuff.
- the only black-pilled response is "someone has to talk to the llm", and if you spend enough time with that line of thinking you inevitably uncover some interesting possibilities about how the world will be arranged as these things become more prevalent. for me, its that: larger companies probably won't get much larger, we've hit peak megacorp, but smaller companies will become more numerous as individual leverage is amplified.