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1 month agoIt’s more a question of agency than ability. Take this excerpt from the announcement:
For a company that sells subscriptions, an AI assistant justifies a price increase and strengthens the case for keeping all documents within its own infrastructure. The functionality and the business model reinforce each other, so integration is not only attractive but almost mandatory.
Anyone employed in such a company will have a hard time resisting. There’s a mix of unrest and despair in the discipline right now. I’ve met colleagues drastically change careers over this. Sick leaves over mental health too.
It’s hard to describe how soul-sucking the process of handing over development to an LLM is, at least for some of us. Even if I have the luxury of reading the slop and wrestling with it, there’s something mind crushing in the process. I don’t understand exactly myself why I hate it so damn much. There’s something psychological going on. I’ve worked with no purpose before, coding stuff because management says so even if I knew it was going to tank hard or it was clearly wrong. This hits different. It’s worst than boring. It’s worst than loss of purpose.