He Thought AI Was Stealing His Job. Now He Gets Paid by AI Agents to Do the Work They Can't.

The fear hit before the facts did. A software engineer watches Copilot autocomplete his functions, sees GPT-4 pass coding interviews, reads the layoff announcements. The pattern feels obvious. Then something shifts. Not the technology. His understanding of what the technology actually needs. This is the story Business Insider covered recently: an engineer who went from defensive to collaborative, from threatened to indispensable. It's a useful anecdote. But the interesting question isn't how he felt about AI.