洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) Mar 21

LLM coding assistants didn't create a split between craft-lovers and make-it-go developers. They revealed one that was always there.

For craft-lovers, what's being bypassed isn't the output but the act itself. Marx called this separation from the act of production. But the alienation isn't coming from the LLM. It's coming from a market that penalizes whoever produces output more slowly.

Why craft-lovers are losing their craft

Why craft-lovers are losing their craft

Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…

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Show threadTamme Schichler
I have one remark: In my experience, the speed metric in a corporate environment is often misaligned with what really makes the product itself valuable. It's small scale, but for example in my indie plugin business, the increasingly available genAI plugins don't seem to compete with mine at all.
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Show threadMateusz 🏳️‍🌈Mar 21
@tamme.schichler.de LLMs don’t force you to deliver poor solutions. It’s your boss that can.