You forgot „make it good“. You will never be a prompt engineer at this rate!

Growing up is realising K.A. Applegate ended Animorphs in the only way she could. Those kids were never going to find peace.

I paid for it for a while, but the price kept going up way faster than inflation (and even faster than my salary). I just pay for Nebula and Dropout instead.

Also the background props that can’t be generated with procgen techniques due to their complexity, are generally used as training exercises for juniors. Taking them away doesn’t give juniors different work, it takes away juniors completely.

It explains a lot about the industry before the advent of LLMs. I always wondered why Node.js took over in web dev so quickly and that so many people only care about having something done makes sense. I just wish they weren’t destroying one of my few favourite things about humanity (Open Source Software) while they wallow in their own misery.

One question I have for the slop advocates in this thread is this - do you not like programming? Did you fall for the „learn to code“ meme and just learned the bare minimum to get a paycheque working on web dashboards?

Like why would you voluntarily cut out the most enjoyable part of the job, and go around scoffing at people who don’t want to do that?

Productivity is my boss’s problem, not mine, and I’d rather go and try and farm geese (I hate geese) than spend my whole day reading LLM generated code.