Having worked in SWE for two decades, I trust AI far more than humans. The top 10% of human programmers did great work when given the right environment, not under pressure by leadership to deliver too quickly, not forced to use or work with partner orgs that sucked, etc. But the majority of people I've worked with, while lovely people, produced very human code. This is why AI is able to find so many exploits.

Yes, people are struggling with status and purpose, but the reality is Opus 5.5 onwards has completely changed reality. We have to harness it.