I am a professional programmer whose employers have compelled me to use genAI.
I have no qualms about saying I hate it, every workday is utterly miserable, I can see my skills eroding, and I see almost nothing but downside to it.
FWIW, a past manager once dubbed me "the Luddite programmer," a badge I wore with pride.
Make no mistake, I do love computers, and writing software. Steve Jobs' metaphor of a "bicycle for the mind" captures well the role they played for me in my teens and twenties.
Alas, LLMs are like a freight train for shipping all minds to one destination, instead of freeing them to all find their individual ways to unique places.
...and also, the freight train's destination is hell.
I have no qualms about saying I hate it, every workday is utterly miserable, I can see my skills eroding, and I see almost nothing but downside to it.
FWIW, a past manager once dubbed me "the Luddite programmer," a badge I wore with pride.
Make no mistake, I do love computers, and writing software. Steve Jobs' metaphor of a "bicycle for the mind" captures well the role they played for me in my teens and twenties.
Alas, LLMs are like a freight train for shipping all minds to one destination, instead of freeing them to all find their individual ways to unique places.
...and also, the freight train's destination is hell.