You weren't the target audience. The target audience was manager types tired of being told no by engineers. Always listen to the quiet parts left unspoken/unacknoeledged.

It's the same thing they tried to sell with low/no-code.

The problem is that the engineer turning what you want into code isn't normally the bottleneck. I would say about 50% of my job is helping people specify what they want sufficiently for someone to implement.

Non-technical people are used to a world of squishy definition where you can tell someone to do something and they will fill in the blanks and it all works out fine.

The problem with successful software is that the users are going to do all the weird things. All the things the manager didn't think about when they were dreaming up their happy path. They are going to try to update the startTime to the past, or to next year and then back to next week. They are going to get their account into some weird state and click the button you didn't think they could. And this is just the users that are trying to use the site without trying to intentionally break it.

I think if managers try to LLM up their dreams it'll go about as well as low/no-code. They will probably be able to get a bit further because the LLM will be willing to bolt on feature after feature and bug fix after bug fix until they realize they've just been piling up bandaids.

I am cautiously optimistic that there will be a thriving market for skilled engineers to come in and fix these things.

They will equally be tired of being told yes by LLMs.

I don't think this is speaking to the engineers

Then who are they targeting? Who else would currently be "implementing every single step"?

Reminds me of the pre-GitHub days, when I had to use CM tools designed to appeal to project and CM managers, not to the poor developers who had to use them every day. Anybody else remember Harvest?

Yeah, we'll see how that'll go.

Few horse racers became automobile racers.

If existing engineers don't change it doesn't matter because new engineers will take their place.

Horse racing didn’t go away and there are more people who race horses professionally than who race cars.

There are many more truck drivers than buggy drivers

there is a lot more buggy code than truck code

Truckers code better than bugs

Buggy drivers are adapted to racing conditions better than truck ones.

"Professional riders number roughly three to six thousand worldwide, while professional drivers number roughly twenty to forty thousand across major sanctioned series."

Horses also run faster than pictures of cars

We‘ll wait and see.

Car manufacturers made profit

Some will wait and see, yes.

Perhaps it's worth posing the question: what sorts of "engineers" might feel threatened by agents? Those doing engineering, or those who spend their careers wading in the shallows? Competent designers with deep comprehension, or, at best, the superficial pedants?