Willison's answer to "Feeling sad about AI": translating an exact spec into decent code is no longer a unique skill
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Responding on September 11 to a Hacker News post about despair over agents doing weeks of work, he concedes the discomfort and argues it passes. His framing is that "once you come to terms with the idea that translating an exact specification into decent code isn't a unique skill any more," accumulated experience becomes the advantage rather than the liability, letting you "execute at a level far greater than anyone who is just getting started."