Well written. My whole life I've always insisted that everything I make, everything with my name on it have my marks on it. My decisions, my idiosyncrasies, my preferences. Whatever it was, essays, presentations, code, drawings. LLMs break that, I can't enforce those marks without breaking their core value proposition.

Those marks do essentially what they claimed to. They prove I did the work. When I use LLM I didn't.

I also don't know how to tread the line between letting an llm do most of the work and still understanding the code base. And it's still an open question whether I will even need to understand it in the future. But if I don't then what is the point of my existence?

I am at a stage in my life where I still care about what I create, however it is a job. I know that unlikely things end up being super important, and business critical software is abandoned after a week. So don't be sloppy.

However it is a job that pays me so that I can do things that don't involve sitting in front of an IDE.

A means to an end.

A way to work on my hobbies.

I know that I will have to support it, so I care about what I produce but not to the point where I am okay with it impacting my ability to go climbing, weightlifting, or playing sports in the evenings. It pays for me to do what I really want to do, like woodwork, grilling, or going swimming.

The friend in the article is someone who doesn't have to support his crap, and in his position I could probably make myself feel the same.