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One HN veteran flatly rejected the essay's framing: coding did get easier, he said, he just never keeps the gains, because competitive markets absorb them. A freelance product engineer made the opposite complaint from the same thread: his codebases have never been healthier, and he's never enjoyed the job less.

The bluntest read borrowed an old parable: a farmhand who'll chop all the wood you want, then quits the moment he's asked to sort a basement of potatoes.