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Nine years back I quit my tech job on 3 years of savings and a software skill. I spent 8 hours a day turning product specs into working code; today an agent does that in seconds.

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(00:00) An agent writes code that used to take eight hours a day
(00:21) Scribes press marks into wet clay for a debt
(00:43) Gutenberg's press turns out more in a day than a scribe in a year
(01:19) Power moves from the copyist to the publisher
(01:28) Coding agents generate entire codebases from a prompt
(01:51) Three jobs remain when building gets cheap

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