I keep thinking about Bill Watterson’s resistance to licensing Calvin and Hobbes and how he takes pride in knowing every line, brush stroke, and letter was done by him. Licensing would turn him into a foreman reviewing other people’s work and he wasn’t interested in that. That’s how I feel. I admit this is strange and somewhat at odds with using libraries and frameworks, but that’s the best analogy I have.

I still use LLMs as a force multiplier, but I wouldn’t call it *satisfying*.