The most surreal thing about AI coding shit taking on is the revelation that so many people who do this thing that I love, seem to have no care for the craft at all. Even people who I would have pointed at, years ago, as those who clearly care. And I know it has always been Just A Job for many people, but holy shit, do you even care a little bit?
We humans are not merely bad at it, we have people who have been doing the work with no desire to be good at it in the first place.

@pikhq I have had ~25 years coding professionally. The first job I had beat all the love for it out of me. I partially regained that when I learnt #Python 15 years ago. Lately I've realised that most of my jobs were BS to make a rich guy richer.

The ethical places I've chosen to work lately bring interesting coding, but also some tedious grind. I despise AI, but I'm encouraged to use it to get things done quickly. We all have bills to pay and sadly caring doesn't pay them. #capitalism

@pikhq What I'm saying, I think, is that caring has been discouraged by those who pay us for a long time. Maybe AI has turbocharged that race to the bottom.