@kakurady @leaf @Scatterplot I really do get the enthusiasm. Everyone who is busy gets to both look and feel like they're getting more done. It must be intoxicating for them. And everyone who is average feels like it's giving them an edge, even though all they've accomplished is to bring up the average with them.

And then there's me, still agonizing over the correctness and maintainability of what I write, being shown the activity feeds of the new average versus what my own activity looks like and being told by my boss, "I know this isn't a criteria we evaluate on at this time, but I want you to look at what upper management / HR sees, versus what your co-workers have started doing."

I've known for a long time that I don't exactly fit the mold of a professional developer in a commercial setting, where *everything* is secondary to "How much money are we gonna make/spend?" and "Is it done yet?", but the world doesn't have much opportunity for "careful and deliberate, low anxiety, but gets paid".

@leaf @Scatterplot “how come so many coders don't just hate LLMs for stealing their work the way that most writers and photographers and musicians do?”
- a long tradition of sharing code
- programming tools always involved some automation
- labour organization rare, workers tend to think themselves as “‘future founders’”

Despite this, many, perhaps most, programmers will see genAI disrupt their self-esteem, even those who successfully adopt it.
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