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> I think this is the place where a lot of "coders" are now, they only cared about the manual part of the job which is gone.

That argument has been repeated so much while all the experienced developers keep saying that coding was not the hardest part of the job. The hardest part was adding the new changes while ensuring the system doesn't break and that it's still easy to modify later. In the latter case, intuition plays a big role into labeling what is a core truth of the system (unlikely to change) and what is a transitory need.

Coding was just something you do (and relax while doing so), not something you put your whole being into. When I code, I mostly think about the system. Which is why I look at the docs and my notes often to check the semantics of whatever symbols I want to use. I don't think about the actual typing of the code.

That's the actual argument against agentic coding. No one is checking semantics, it's hope and prayers that the software is correct.

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> they only cared about the manual part of the job

I think this is a very small part of the population, if anybody. Craftspeople, perhaps definitionally, are people who care about the work of making AND the results. This is true for many many devs.

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