I feel similarly to the author, and I appreciate the links to other authors with similar sentiments - "hirirng a taskrabbit to solve a puzzle" or "feeling nothing about the results". I don't enjoy using LLMs, and I'm sad that it feels like we are a shrinking minority of programmers. It feels like a growing gulf that I increasingly don't want to try and reach across - I do not have fun with this tool, and I don't really want to hang around somewhere people are frequently pedaling it.

At the very least the change has made me reduce the amount of time I spend here. But I'm still a bit bummed about it.

I hear you. If you find any other places to hang out that aren't busy hyping AI constantly, let me know please?