Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
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A philosophical reflection on why developers who love coding as a craft are being alienated from it by LLM coding assistants. Drawing on Marx's concept of alienated labor, the author distinguishes between developers who find meaning in the act of writing code versus those who care only about the result. The market now penalizes the former by rewarding speed above all else. The author argues the source of grief isn't the technology itself but the economic structure that forces its adoption. Using their own situation as an open source maintainer with no employer pressure as a counterexample, they suggest the same tool can feel liberating or alienating depending on the social conditions around it.
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