I’m with you, but sadly I think you should ask yourself the question of how much the businesses care about these points. Not how much they should care, but how much they do actually care. For me as a developer that’s what matters the most, because I cannot maintain my abstinent approach for much longer in the current climate, something needs to happen and tip the balance.
I know the business don’t care! Which is why I am going the route of protest, political activism, boycott, and other ways to reduce their profits. As realistically the only way to make these big dumb idiots back off is to make a big stink, reduce their bottom line, and raise awareness of scummy tactics.
I do understand your situation as you’ll be forced between a rock and a hard place. It will likely be very difficult to remain on the side of no-LLM usage for programmers/web dev/creatives in most cases because these big businesses are full on rabies drooling for LLMs. They desperately want them, willing to do nearly anything to make them fetch. Even lose all self-respect. It’s gotten to the point where these places are either offering generous severance to senior devs or just laying them off in order to make LLMs look fetch.
The cost is going to catch up with them, and it is going to be apocalyptic when they get the bill.
I’m with you, but sadly I think you should ask yourself the question of how much the businesses care about these points. Not how much they should care, but how much they do actually care. For me as a developer that’s what matters the most, because I cannot maintain my abstinent approach for much longer in the current climate, something needs to happen and tip the balance.
I know the business don’t care! Which is why I am going the route of protest, political activism, boycott, and other ways to reduce their profits. As realistically the only way to make these big dumb idiots back off is to make a big stink, reduce their bottom line, and raise awareness of scummy tactics.
I do understand your situation as you’ll be forced between a rock and a hard place. It will likely be very difficult to remain on the side of no-LLM usage for programmers/web dev/creatives in most cases because these big businesses are full on rabies drooling for LLMs. They desperately want them, willing to do nearly anything to make them fetch. Even lose all self-respect. It’s gotten to the point where these places are either offering generous severance to senior devs or just laying them off in order to make LLMs look fetch.
The cost is going to catch up with them, and it is going to be apocalyptic when they get the bill.