"The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/

It comes down to whether you think "more of the same" is a good thing or a bad thing for software.

The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

@baldur this is such a great line: “They are right. LLMs make work that doesn’t matter easier”. Also it seems like the folks around for dot com crash and Great Recession are being fired as well, so more likely to lose the internal skeptics
@virtualinanity Yeah, it certainly feels like the sceptics are being weeded out.