My obituary for programming

Jeremy Scheff reflects on what career programmers lose as coding agents take over: programming was once a job where you were paid to solve tricky logic puzzles, and the harder the puzzle the more you were paid, because regular people couldn't do it and needed programmers to set strategy, timelines and what was possible. He notes that programmers who thrive on building working systems and don't care deeply about the problems solved along the way benefit greatly from LLMs, while those who enjoyed directly solving those problems face a very real loss.