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ugh. nothing prevents you from writing "software the old way"

you have agency.

you're right, nothing stops me. i still can. but that's not really the point.

when everyone around you is shipping in hours what used to take weeks, the pressure to keep up changes how you approach things. you know the answer is one prompt away. that changes your brain. it's like saying you can still use a paper map when GPS exists, technically true, but you won't, and you know it.

the post isn't about going back. it's about acknowledging that something shifted in how we learn by building.

You could look for a position in a company where genAI use is not so prevalent. They're still very common and do very interesting work.

Yeah that's fair, those teams probably produce better engineers in the long run too.

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