I've been in this developer education / devrel / developer experience etc etc space for a long time now and it still strikes me as utterly bizarre how frequently we talk about software engineering as though it isn't primarily a thing people do it as employees of companies in industry. It makes no sense to reason about any of this without talking about money.

(Sidebar: software engineers not seeing themselves as workers is imo partly also why so few organised while they had the leverage.)

Coming back to this, what I find lacking in most of the research and discussion about LLM use is any consideration of motivations, why people are engaged in a task, what their goals are, why they might choose to use these tools.

Inevitably many of the answers to these questions point at overarching economic dynamics that we will need to engage with if we want to mitigate the harms caused.