I generally think this will be a very important technology so I teach the subject to make sure people understand how to use it as leverage in their lives. (Yes as paid workshops, but I also volunteer weekly for 3-4 hour sessions at a non-profit where I get nothing more than the joy of helping people learn a valuable skill.)
At the same time just last week I wrote a post decrying the slop people are hoisting on their coworkers[^1], because I want people to use this technology in a positive way to create the lives they want, not to create downstream consequences for others. Ultimately I think agentic systems are incredibly powerful but also a technology that lends itself to anti-social behavior because of how independently empowering it can be. And so I hope that with the right exposure, discussion, and teaching we can take advantage of its democratizing nature, while reinforcing that what makes us special as humans is that we care and coordinate to do greater things. Value in this world — not just in the financial sense that we often boil it down to when we talk about this subject.
Hope that context helps provide a better lens into the piece, and that I still do care a lot about code and everything else that got me here, but that you are also reading personal reflections of who I am in a time of change, which is making me question (or reinforcing) some of the fundamental things I believed about software and sometimes the world more widely.