Which raises the question: what if the people on the other side of the divide aren't more trusting, less curious, less experienced or otherwise less suited or less capable of making use of the tools? What if they're simply humanities people? Or worse, mechanical engineers?

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LLM coding agents appear useful primarily within Silicon Valley tech culture, which values rapid innovation and status through production. Engineering cultures prioritize maintenance, reliability, and ethical responsibility over novelty, making these tools less valuable. The discourse around coding agents reflects cultural biases that marginalize maintenance work, infrastructure tasks, and perspectives from outside tech culture, while inadvertently reinforcing gender dynamics that devalue traditionally feminized technical work like DevOps and data engineering.

The problem is culture