There’s also a middle ground you’re missing.

People who think you might be right but also find it equally likely that there’s a middle ground and we’ll keep working until that happens.

It’s distinctly possible an AI will put me out of a job in which case I’ll sell this house, move into a shitty rental, and borrow from fam to go back to school. Probably trade school as I suspect that’s what I should’ve done years back instead of doing the CCNA->NetEng route.

That said, I think it’s equally likely that the situation is somewhere between the total doom on one side and the “this will change nothing” head in the sand on the other side.

Like, what do you propose we do?

Many of the devs you’re sneering at are probably secretly looking forward to it so they can finally walk into the woods and not hear that fucking slack wood knock sound anyways.