“All my finance and payment domain expertise, all the debugging intuition and distributed system knowledge earned through hours of sweat and tears, is now promptable.”

A ten-year engineer watches his hard-won domain knowledge get reduced to a prompt anyone can type. Companies stopped hiring for the specialty and started hiring generic bodies who can talk to the model. The expertise that took years to build is now a commodity. He still has a job. He is not sure for how long, and neither is anyone being honest.