It’s interesting that the lack of effort that goes into creating something creates a reduced emotional attachment to ensuring it’s long term success or caretaking.

When everything is shiny and it’s easy to move along to the next project you can complete in a week, everything becomes “abandonware” and yet llms also make it easier than ever to pick up where something was left off and modernize it in a flash, thus making stewardship itself of less value.

Then what even is the value of creating and owning something? I might as well recreate all my dependencies from scratch. The reason I use something like Emacs is because I trust the people maintaining it that they will make choices I agree with or are in my interest most of the time, and that they care about what the create and have taken the time to make sure that it's high quality. Something that another person has cooked up quickly to solve a problem I care about isn't worth anything to me unless it offers a level of quality I wouldn't be able to match with a few hours/days of LLM-whacking.