@bert_hubert it’s a good piece. It reminds me of a video by a woodworker I watched some time ago. It was about how we fetishise William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement as good craftsmanship. But those were largely wealthy middle class people cosplaying as mediaeval craftspeople, making furniture for other rich people. It’s not a sustainable model of what craftsmanship should be in the modern world.

So what is? Ercol maybe? Largely machine-made, hand finished, with good design and decent materials. What would be the Ercol of software development? But even Ercol is quite expensive compared to Ikea, say.

(Edit: I think this is the video: https://youtu.be/fkEsm1FBKIc)

@bert_hubert
"""
I’ve written tens of thousands of lines of Terraform in my life. It is a miserable chore to endlessly flip back and forth between the provider documentation and Vim, adding all the required parameters
"""
Nobody told that person about Terraform LSP and formatter, it seems. Otherwise they won't be bragging about the results that much (IMO, for sure).

Again, and again, if one's ready to throw out their ethical principle that easy, it wasn't a principle. By their own words:
"""
LLMs are an impossibly unethical tool
"""