Charitably, we could say that “agentic” software engineering is less than 4 years old. I say charitably because I think even that’s an extraordinary stretch. But even at 4 years, I don’t think anybody can fairly claim to be experienced in it in a way that’s going to be stable and fungible for, say, the next 30 years.

(My experience has been the polar opposite: the people I know who are the most “AI pilled” are also the ones who have the shortest technical horizons in terms of how transferable they expect their LLM skills to be.)