Dave Copeland 
The Death of a Software Craftsman (it happens a lot 'round here)
https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2026/02/23/the-death-of-the-software-craftsman.html
AI Abstinence? All in on Agents? Or resign yourself to becoming a niche craftsperson?
Coraline Ada Ehmke@davetron5000 I hate this timeline. I left corporate tech in 2021, and it would have been hard enough to return had not this rug-pull pulled this particular rug. Now I can only code on passion projects or grant-funded work I guess.
I still care about code. Writing code is transformative, and I don't want to lose that. So for me, I guess it's option 3: Embrace Tradition. (But I'm still not calling myself a "craftsman".)
@CoralineAda I have been a depressive haze for the last few months because of this. I'm not sure if writing this post helps, but I think it does. Though still not sure what this means for me personally.
Craft{er,sman,sperson} - I don't love the term, but "maker" doesn't seem right to me, nor does "artisan", but maybe it's just "coder"?
Kerrick Long (code)@davetron5000 I went through a similar haze, which ended in late December for me. It's really hard to describe in a few words why the following doesn't match the experience I have with LLM-augmented coding using certain tools (not most!):
> “coding” by writing Markdown and feeding it to a compiler that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t until I ask it nicely to do what I need.
Instead, it feels more like a weird form of rapid-fire software design iteration, like whiteboarding but in code.
@kerrick My limited experience is that it's anything but rapid, but I have not gone deep on any of this.