The combination of an anti-genAI screed that came across my timeline two days ago (garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-), plus @nolanNolan Lawson's latest blog post "We mourn our craft" (nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-), has given me a renewed desire to resist the supposedly inevitable future where we programmers are reduced to driving LLM-based coding agents and reviewing reams of generated code to make sure nothing bad slipped through, or worse, trusting yet more LLM agents to review and test the code for us.

In the short term, I guess the main thing I can do is just refuse to use LLMs. Fortunately I'm not currently working a job where LLM usage is mandated. In fact, I have some power, as technical cofounder of my tiny software company.

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