> I am very lucky to be ensconced right now within a team and a company that views the current LLM mania with a similar level of disdain as myself.

It only takes one person, someone with enough power, to fall for the ai-equals-productivity-equals-profits trap to bring the house down.

When the funds dry up, he'll be back.

There will always be a crop of people who can only program because they can't afford land to take up farming.

> I guess tech has been good enough to provide some kind of economic cushion that you can retain a reasonable life style as home depot as your only source of income.

It certainly has. There are other instances of former tech workers who subtely brag online about "moving to the countryside" to "raise chickens," "write poetry," or another performative lifestyle using profits from the industry they're quitting.

The equivalent of posting a screenshot of a Notes app entry on Instagram.

> How do people find jobs?

By tapping into a network you've ideally built over the course of your career. In the 2020s, people get good jobs from whom they know, not what they know.

Do you play with any mods?

It's about pride at this point.

> E.H. promised her investors a magic cure -> sharlatan

*charlatan

Access to drinkable water is pretty important.