> And third, most importantly, who would read anything I wrote if they could just generate it themselves?
This should be embarrassingly obvious to everyone, but allegedly there are hoards of vibecoders and other slop producers to whom it never occurs (if it's not astroturfers pretending to be that). If prompt slinging is your only expertise, you already are redundant.
Meh. I‘d be happy if my AI built my program just the way that I want it, but it turns out to be a lot of work go get it to do that (Deepseek, Claude might be a bit less involved).
I still have to make a bunch of decisions based on its research, so it still turns out to be hours of work that can go into it.
Granted, I can probably optimize some things by encoding my style preferences. But so far it has been a lot more involved than „make me an app, make no mistakes“.
That‘s why I‘d call it in a large part my work. It‘s my vision, in the same way an architect that has never personally laid a brick can call a building „their work“.
> If prompt slinging is your only expertise, you already are redundant.
You got this right. I do a lot of stuff that requires LLM prompting recently. But I haven't written a single prompt. LLM agent does that for me when I tell it to as if I told an employee.