Don't You Mean Extinct?

# Summary When Jurassic Park's groundbreaking CGI T-Rex demonstration in 1993 proved that computer graphics could replace traditional stop-motion animation, veteran stop-motion director Phil Tippett felt "extinct"—a moment that illustrates how technological disruption can make established skills obsolete. The article argues that programmers experiencing anxiety about AI language models (LLMs) can avoid the same fate by evolving with new technologies, just as past generations adapted through the web boom, mobile revolution, and other shifts. The key to survival is investing time to understand how LLMs work and learning to use them effectively, as refusing to adopt new tools will leave developers unable to compete.