> Do we want activist software engineers?

Regardless of whether "we" want them, we already have them, and that genie isn't going back in the bottle. In my view, every person has to decide their ethics and then act accordingly. The alternative is forcing people to accord with the principles of the employer or government or guild or whoever. There just isn't a coherent supermajority morality anymore - and no real path to one.

I don't have a solid object level opinion on the llm stuff. For the most part it seems like a tempest in a teacup to me. Some things will get easier, some things will get more annoying, and everyone will still have to get up and put on underwear one leg at a time.