Every day we are bombarded with a fresh dose of doom, on this site especially, telling us it's invalid to value programming for its own sake more than doing data-labeling for Anthropic at your own expanse. These posts are the natural counter-reaction.

The other sad thing is many people have indeed got so tangled up in the hype and superficial productivity, they have indeed temporarily forgotten they can just opt out of using a clanker, at least for their personal work and be happier, or at least find some mid-point where they aren't just burnt out meat proxies. I don't think these endless blog posts would necessarily help with that though. Like quitting an addiction, this is a very personal decision...