Post #4382866

2026-08-04 20:49 UTC

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I’m not doubting my competence nor yours. I’m just saying that LLMs becoming the norm is a strong signal of an industry becoming rotten. No privilege here, there are trades, there is entrepreneurship, there is pursuing another career etc. I will always try to align my values with my livelihood. But that’s me.

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@chroma@raccoonisland.social 2026-08-04 20:52

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Maybe security engineers like your see it differently, but for web and other kind of developers we used, and some of us still do, consider our work creative, exciting and stimulating intellectually. If you take that out you only leave the misery of the corporate politics and pure brain rot. I’m sure that you can understand that this is not about privilege, it’s about not falling into literal depression. Most of us were in love with our work.

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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange 2026-08-04 20:52

@chroma@raccoonisland.social Yeah I don't know how things are where you live, but it can be literally life-threatening here to sacrifice a job (and healthcare) to pursue a speculative other job/career.

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@phreakmonkey@infosec.exchange 2026-08-04 20:56

@chroma@raccoonisland.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange how, pray tell, should someone with 30+ years in an industry, a family they support, a mortgage, &etc just go about "pursuing another career" because their "industry has become rotten?" Not a reasonable thing to ask a 50-something person who has spent decades getting to where they are to do.

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