Awesome! However, the corporate is excited with using AI, making the coder the one who's at risk at getting fired for writing the exact same lousy (for the sake of the argument) code.

Or worse: for not relying as much as possible to the AI who apparently can write just as bad code but faster!

A subtle detail: you speak of coders, not software engineers. A SWE's value is not his code churning speed.

Admitting you've spent two decades on a career stuck working in the kind of sweatshops that hire people who can't actually code isn't much of a flex, and certainly doesn't lend a whole lot of credence to your argument.

This says more about you and the people you work with. I find engineers that have been at the company for a while are quite invaluable when it comes to this information, it's not just knowing the how but the when + why that's critical as well.

Acting like people can't be good at their job is frankly dehumanizing and says a lot about your mindset with how you view other fellow devs.

Please let's stop with the "but some humans also suck at this so it's ok if LLMs also suck at it" argument. It doesn't add anything to the discussion.