Second group are often the management decision makers, holding budgets, setting up 5-year plans etc. Don't underestimate them nor mock them, at the end its a disservice to all of us.
That is a great point. People in this group are programming at a different abstraction level, i.e., allocating computing resources, both human and machine resources.
Now AI agents are cheap but they generate a lot of slop, and potential minefields that might be costly to clean. The ROI will show up eventually and people in the second group will find out their jobs might be in danger. Hopefully a third group will come to save them.
