“If the models are good enough, you will simply get outcompeted by engineers willing to trade their long-term cognitive ability.”
The pitch is that software engineering becomes pro sports. Fifteen years of high earnings, then your brain is mush from outsourcing every problem to a model and you’re done. The honest part is admitting nobody gets to opt out. Refuse the tools and the market refuses you, same as it did to anyone who stuck with hand tools after the nail gun showed up.