The thing that kills me about all this is that after years of building up kind/human/caring community around me, ppl I appreciated because of those traits suddenly drop all semblance of caring about them because.... they have the perception of coding a bit better/faster. That's all it took.

I'll say it straight: you can't voluntarily and willingly use LLMs in a way that's aligned with respect for marginalized folks, with respect for the environment, with respect for labor issues and rights, with respect for art, and with respect for the community aspects of things like open source.

It is simply impossible. Pretending you can is the deepest form of cognitive dissonance and I'm just beyond disturbed to see it happening all around me.

I've already unfollowed so many folks I once respected, blocked some others, and just generally withdrawn from a community that used to be so personally fulfilling to be a part of. It's really sad.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/115548761092296218

My hypothesis for a while is that the push for LLM use in software development has for the most part come from people (mostly men) who used to do some programming in the past — possibly to the point of being called a tech wiz or a one of a kind wunderkind — but have never used an IDE or an editor setup with strict typing, powerful auto-complete and clear patterns, with a good team that looks forward to showing up in the morning and helping each other out.