You're writing this on a computer over the Internet. When is exactly the point in time where the technology had to stop?

The fear of new is nothing new 😉

It's a form of luddism.

It is a tool, not a replacement, indeed.
That's the whole point: it's "just" a tool. A very nice one indeed.

It replaces many many tasks, not the people performing it. Well, not all of them 😉

As always, if one remains too attached to the old tasks.... well, then replacement or a big downgrade seems inevitable.

But agents won't transform non technical people into programmers, engineers, app builders or even self sufficient tech guys, finally able to master "computers".

On the contrary: it will widen the gap between the (fewer) tech savvy and the rest.

I cannot say anything for who have to learn literally from scratch.

But as a mature (very...) dev I can tell that learning how to use agents is no different than learning any other tool in the history of mankind.

Is not less noble less hard or less of a craft.

It's software engineer. As usual.

Yes :)

Why now? If anything I see it consistently getting better.

That's exactly it. Now context and memory are more important. Now strictly the size but the "right ones". As it happens for humans, being expert is more about knowing what to leave out.

Exactly. Switched to Gemini when they launched 3 Pro and barely used anything else since.

Gemini 3 pro and Jules have transformed my daily work in less then a month.

Also love that at Google (DeepMind really) are taking this approach with many labs and experimental apps that do one thing only and now interoperability begin to appear.

I went for top up since day one.

I'm happy with the choice and going to stick with this.