Feeling sad about AI

Simon Willison’s Weblog · 1 month ago · 35 ● 8 sources

A commenter on Hacker News argues that people can feel existentially discouraged when AI coding agents produce work faster than a week of effort before adjusting their mindset about what makes software engineering valuable. The post cites the shift from “a week” of coding to “an hour” as the catalyst for that disheartenment. It concludes that, after accepting this, engineers should refocus on broader problem-solving and see the tools as something they can build on rather than something that ends their value.