Seeing so much use of copilot/LLM in open source projects has me creeped out.

I can understand the professionals using it: they are being paid to ship more features faster, and you work to live not live to work. Fuck it, save time, go home at 5pm!

But if this is a person’s hobby time, why in the world would they pass up on the “actually having fun” part of it?

The whole point of the hobby – to me, anyway – is the learning, not the typing. Digging though actually-printed books; trying to interoperate with decades-old programs; feeling a connection with the engineers of old; and maybe someday writing up a post-mortem after putting it to rest.

It isn’t about the end result, it’s the process of getting there.