Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ So many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done. They hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to go back to the way it was. They're realizing it's never going back. Date: September 5, 2026 Image: Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X — So many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done.

They hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to go back to the way it was.

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Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) on X So many people are about to self-retire from our industry as a result of LLMs completing changing how coding is done. They hate it. They hate prompting, managing agents, reviewing. They want it to… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com The world has changed it’s now different and there is no going back. You get to choose to adopt it or not. You get to choose your attitude. But at this point the agents write most average code, better than the average developer, faster than the average developer, and the average developer sucks at steering it. Over time we will get better at steering them, they will continue to get better at breakneck speeds for a long time. We will either learn restraint or they will get better at making that choice not to boil the ocean for us. I really do get this feeling of the self-retire. It’s so easy to let agents do everything, and it so hard to watch the world turn to slop around us. No one can simply answer a question in a meeting or an interview without referring to their clanker and its it’s so irritating from both ends. It sucks to hear no one understands the depth of projects anymore, and at the same time it sucks to get called out on the complexity you glossed over. Things are changing fast, like it or hate it, its not stopping because of your opinions, you get to choose your outlook on it.