"Programmer" as an identity is obsolete
LIVE from NEARCON Day 1 In SF (The Rollup)
“I think just the identity — if you identify yourself as a programmer, your job is at risk… the people that identify themselves as ‘I’m a full stack, I’m a back end’ — no, those are going to be gone. There’s zero margin[al] value in that skill anymore.” — 03:22:16
Context: Closing hiring take: builders, generalists, and domain experts win; narrow programming specialists lose to agents.