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devs who shipped software to millions, even billions of users without ai deserve some basic respect. if not for them, then at least for what they know. and when you look at the work of the people doing the lecturing, it's dunning-kruger at full volume.

sure, all of it can be learned, and ai can make that faster. but ai explaining the sdlc to you is not the same as actually doing it. turning it into practice and reflexes takes time, plus a bunch of social skills.

even today's agentic workflows evolved from 20-30 years of sdlc. "plan first, then build" wasn't discovered last year. prds weren't invented alongside you. using a process you learned yesterday to lecture people who've fought for it for 20 years looks pretty funny from the outside.