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How about we just hire humans and let them code without AI, then we don't have this issue! Every piece of valuable software to date was written this way.

In before, “you’ll be left behind crowd”, I agree, most of what we call SWE in 2026 will probably just be done by agents, at which point I’m not sure why humans are even reading it. Stop bottlenecking your agent when it’s building the nth slop website.

But if you agree, we will still need human intelligence for some tasks, then in my experience it is best used as a generator, not reviewer and ideally unmolested by LLM Intelligence. The amount of creativity you should delegate is 0.

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