LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
Hacker News (AI keywords)·1d ago·Opinion
The author argues that LLMs are eroding three pillars of his software engineering career: domain knowledge, debugging skill, and architecture judgment. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, MCP, Sentry MCP, and DataDog MCP increasingly handle design, implementation, and difficult production bugs. The essay frames this as a labor-market concern, not just a tooling debate: if expertise becomes promptable, engineers may struggle to remain differentiated.
