I resonate with every example given - setting jumpers by hand, sound card interrupts, autoexec.bat. I'm also a happy user of LLMs and agents. This article captured for me what is lost - which, as others point out, has long since been lost, if ever had, in other fields (e.g. modern cars vs. the Model T). I wouldn't go back, but I can still have a sense of loss.
Strong disagree that there is no other side of the question from the employee's perspective. Personally, I don't want to be collectively represented in my work by any group other than myself.
I assume this post was fully human-written, but ironically, there's something quite LLM-ishly overconfident about this assertion:
> They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters.
Every decision that matters? Some, yes. Is the author only noticing the decisions that go wrong?