See: https://jry.io/writing/you-are-not-your-job/
We have to “Be Our Job” exactly because we live in a capitalistic world or any competitive world, really. If we do not embody our job, someone who is more motivated will embody the job and do a better job than you. So if you want to be competitive, you have to devote time and effort into it. Or you can get lucky and be super smart. If you don’t want to be competitive, that is fine too, but then you will get left behind.
The author also laments that we need warmth and empathy. But this is exactly what is missing when we interact with the coldness of LLM and their output. There is no humanity in code that is generated by LLM. There is no story, there is no experience there. People skim the code and pass by without much care aside from its functionality. There is no taste. And yet, it works, and for some, that is all that matters.