Post AvnaF0Z5g1DsD8F5Mm by Kiloku@burnthis.town
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 (DIR) Post #AvnTJOMiQig9VPb64e by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2025-07-04T17:41:48Z
       
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       @eevee > I feel like I get a little dumber every time I accidentally start reading itso much this!!
       
 (DIR) Post #AvnWD1eWGLKZBia4Wm by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2025-07-04T18:14:16Z
       
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       @eevee > [The attitude about LLMs] feels like the same attitude that happened with Bitcoin, the same smug nose-wrinkling contempt.  Bitcoin is the future.  It’ll replace the dollar by 2020.  You’re gonna be left behind.> What do programmers get out of this? I think you've struck something deeper, not tied to vested interest.Isn't this similar to the smug "I use Arch btw" ?I think I've seen this much earlier, in non-IT context, but I can't recall an example...religion? 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #AvnZ4MAYubP84m7tp2 by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2025-07-04T18:46:20Z
       
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       @eevee Also you wrote that the LLM hype is rooted in the idea that "doing things is worthless".To me that sounds awfully like burnout / depression / learned helplessness.So maybe that's where this comes from? Maybe people have been doing tedious work without seeing any purpose or meaning in it, they got burned out, and now they want a machine to do that job for them...> What are you all even writing that so much of it consists of generic slop?IMO many jobs are like that :(
       
 (DIR) Post #AvnaF0Z5g1DsD8F5Mm by Kiloku@burnthis.town
       2025-07-04T18:59:24Z
       
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       @wolf480pl @eevee My lead dev who uses LLMs to "help" him (I've caught code with mistakes I know he wouldn't have made if he wrote it himself) tends to work until like 3 AM every now and then. I guess if you feel the need to overwork you also start resenting the work
       
 (DIR) Post #AvnaTc4wzvRWc16oAi by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2025-07-04T19:02:06Z
       
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       @Kiloku @eevee yeahAlso, pressure to get the thing to work no matter what is such a killjoy.It can be external, but it can also be internal - when a lot of people rely on you.It makes it seem like the result is all that matters, and then the process itself is no longer enjoyable.
       
 (DIR) Post #Avoh6j0nwqZUI9A9Bo by ozzelot@mstdn.social
       2025-07-05T07:51:03Z
       
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       @eevee "There are people I once respected who, apparently, don’t actually enjoy doing the thing.  They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it.  That isn’t programming, though.  That’s management, a fairly different job."This goes hard.