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I feel like most of the anxiety around LLMs is because (in the USA at least) our social safety net sucks.

I'd probably have way more fun debating LLMs if it wasn't tied to my ability to pay rent, have healthcare, or feel like a valued person contributing something to society. If we had universal healthcare and a federal job guarantee it would probably calm things down.

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Don't let the hysteria and the astro-turfing get to you. Things are not nearly as close to what a bunch of hyper-excited project managers, average developers and labs propagandists like to say.

The more you use code agents, the clearer its limitations will appear to you.

Everyone selling them as some silver bullet is either trying to astroturf it, to ride the wave as a newly minted "expert/early adopter" or have no fucking clue about what they are talking.

Yes that's why most of the excited folks are VCs and software engineers who made their wealth already

What's more interesting is how the big names in our industry, the ones who already made their money as you say, have turned quickly since the end of 2025. I think even the most old school names can see that the writing is on the wall now.

What do you mean turned quickly?

Changed their opinion/public stance completely sometimes only months apart. For example "I love programming" to "if you aren't with AI you are behind" within maybe only 6 months time. Its almost like anyone with any public opinion in software is being paid to say it now and boost the AI hype.

Yeah, I'm surprised by this. The pragmatic engineer publication is full of them.

It may be that most of these people only see the benefits, or don't think they'll be adversely affected by this.

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