LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
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A 10-year backend engineer specializing in fintech and payments watched AI systematically dismantle every skill that made him valuable: domain knowledge, debugging intuition, and now even clean architecture. LLMs paired with agentic tools now one-shot 90% of complex distributed bugs. His hard-won expertise is "promptable," and the industry is quietly replacing specialists with generalist engineers who steer AI.
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