@imbl @davidgerard Nuanced disagreement: the average working lifespan of a developer is 10 years, after that time burnout beckons and the end product of burnout is "I want any tool that makes life easier". LLMs are sold to these folks as making life easier, and they *really* want to believe, so they adopt them. (I knew one thirty-something dev in the 1990s who put on a suit and went off to Uni to get an MBA, part-time, on the job: at least she understood what was happening to her.)
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@cstross
That's me in part I guess, after burnout years ago I use Linux Mint these days and I too tend towards "it just works" tech instead of "you can fiddle with it endlessly", but I'd like to believe that at least I retain my ethics which prevents me from turning into another techbro, and can't abide the Torment Nexus or those who peddle it
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