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@vie@hachyderm.io most modern software engineering is thin layers of logic plumbing together different SaaS providers. Your boss will never let you self-host Postgres because he thinks it's cheaper to get an SLA from GCP. It's boring, repetitive, soulless. I'm not surprised people would be eager to turn it into an assembly line of PR reviews instead of writing code. Also, engineers are very competitive, and most think of themselves as special, that's why unionisation has been historically low in SWE. They're not thinking "AI will take my job", they're thinking "how can I use this LLM to outperform my colleague, get him fired, and get his bonus".