@davetron5000 I hate this timeline. I left corporate tech in 2021, and it would have been hard enough to return had not this rug-pull pulled this particular rug. Now I can only code on passion projects or grant-funded work I guess.

I still care about code. Writing code is transformative, and I don't want to lose that. So for me, I guess it's option 3: Embrace Tradition. (But I'm still not calling myself a "craftsman".)

@CoralineAda I have been a depressive haze for the last few months because of this. I'm not sure if writing this post helps, but I think it does. Though still not sure what this means for me personally.

Craft{er,sman,sperson} - I don't love the term, but "maker" doesn't seem right to me, nor does "artisan", but maybe it's just "coder"?

@davetron5000 I went through a similar haze, which ended in late December for me. It's really hard to describe in a few words why the following doesn't match the experience I have with LLM-augmented coding using certain tools (not most!):

> “coding” by writing Markdown and feeding it to a compiler that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t until I ask it nicely to do what I need.

Instead, it feels more like a weird form of rapid-fire software design iteration, like whiteboarding but in code.