Some people like running, and some people like traveling. Running is a fine hobby, but I'm still glad that planes exist.
Maybe some future version of agentic tooling will decimate software engineering as a career path, but that's just another way of saying that everyone and their grandmother would suddenly have the ability to launch a tech startup. Having gone through fundraising in the past, I'd personally prefer to live in a world where anyone with a good idea could get access to the equivalent of a full dev team without raising a dime.
Maybe some future version of agentic tooling will decimate software engineering as a career path, but that's just another way of saying that everyone and their grandmother would suddenly have the ability to launch a tech startup. Having gone through fundraising in the past, I'd personally prefer to live in a world where anyone with a good idea could get access to the equivalent of a full dev team without raising a dime.