One thing I haven't heard many people…

One thing I haven't heard many people talking about is that coding agents can more or less cure RSI after decades of mashing out programs by hand.

Not saying programmers will be remembered as coal miners or 9/11 heroes or anything, but I'm not not saying that.

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