Created by the author"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer."That's Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and one of the most respected AI researchers alive, writing in December 2025. He describes a "magnitude 9 earthquake" rocking the profession. A "powerful alien tool" handed around with no manual.Now consider the narrative you've been hearing from vendors, executives, and LinkedIn thought leaders: AI has collapsed software development costs by 70-90%. Development velocity is through t...