Post #2773924

2026-02-07 00:41 UTC

@vie@hachyderm.io I feel like LLM only exacerbate a situation that already existed: There are artisans, and there are workers. The artisans build things out of their craft, and the outcome benefits from decades of accumulated experience. The workers perform a task at hand, moving boxes from A to B, mainly worried about the outcome of not having box A not reach B in time. Speed and compliance is key in a competitive environment like that one. It's always been hard for artisans to find work in an industry hungry for workers. And it's been tough for workers to outcompete each other in speed and price. Coding agents provide workers with the unprecedented ability to clone themselves, sometimes many times, and get many boxes moved from point A to point B. Because what they sell is task completion and not craftsmanship it doen't matter in what way the work is done. And the industry never cared in the first place. There might be a world where agent orchestration will become a form of craft, and the ones diving deep right now will have a head start in this industry. Or maybe not and it's all just hype, smoke and mirror. there is no way to tell. I'm happy with my craft, even though it's never been recognised as such and never will. I wish good luck to those surrendering their skills to the whims of large undemocratic corporations.

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@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net 2026-02-07 07:29

@Andrev@types.pl @vie@hachyderm.io I like this analogy a lot. Someone else told me about being a poet vs a journalist and although journalists have screw it up the last decades I thought it was unfair to journalism. Anyways, it also reminded me of my experience in university. I was a bad architecture student, but I was fascinated by theoretical subjects, my classmates that were good at it often didn’t care that much about the theoretical aspect and wanted to shorten the career by removing them from the curriculum. We had a discussion once when they said «this is not useful for work» and I was like «I’m such a privileged bitch that I never considered working, I can solve that later». I had a romantic idea of what university was, as well as of programming. Is nice to know I’m not the only one, but I don’t just wanna carry the feeling. I feel like we can still do something

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