how come so many coders don’t just hate LLMs for stealing their work the way that most writers and photographers and musicians do? The answer boils down to three things:

Coders have long had a history of openly sharing code with each other, as part of an open source, collaborative culture that goes back for more than half a century. Tools for writing and creating code have almost always offered a certain degree of automation and reuse of work, so generating code doesn’t feel like as radical a departure from past practices. Software development is one of the fields with the least-advanced cultures around labor, as workers have almost no history of organizing, and many coders tend to side much more with management as they’ve been conditioned to think of themselves as “future founders” rather than being in solidarity with other workers.

Insightful comments on the likely impact of LLMs on dev work.