Personally, as someone dumb enough to have paid for medium for about 5 years as one of their quote-on-quote "early investors", I am not surprised so many developers are gaga for LLMs. Most of the space was already a weird gray mental goo. People for some reason just bringing in their enterpise coding practices into their hobby. People building hobby projects that seem to mostly be for like weird business use cases. Just a general sense that there was no hobby just a second office place.
The software developer as a gender is a very toxic and performative one mostly oriented around clout, chasing the highs of a product launch, and dreaming about your big break in the industry. When ever line of code shipped is a little scratch off ticket, it's not much of a surprise that they turn to the slots.
The more I read stuff written by people frying their brains using their digital slave, the more it just reminds of all those medium blogs spouting hollow insights back and forth and back and forth. It's the same slop it's always been, just amplified a million times over.
Burned out, lauched addicted, loners, many of whom turned to computers because social isolation working on projects that have out grown their under/unfunded efforts to support an industry thanklessly suddenly have a entity that seems to care about them, endlessly duplicatable, and can possibly push their product to the promised fortunes of the field? Gee, how else would this have ended?
To save yourself the pain, assume any project that has two or more of the following will drown:
Have not yet made a statement against AI
Have little to no funding
Is nearing or has surpassed what an individual can do (even with tooling)
Has surprassed what pure volunteer labor can sustain (even with tool)
The developer(s) are highly influencial in tech
The developer(s) feel constant unendung pressure to continue piling on features
The developer has no other creative outlets and has become their hobby and job
The project is important to business entities that could afford to fork and discard this free labor at a moments notice
