> Make programming more boring This is a terrible argument for anything to do with programming/code. It is pure opinion and preference and therefore is not fal

> Make programming more boring This is a terrible argument for anything to do with programming/code. It is pure opinion and preference and therefore is not falsifiable. If you’re on a team of one, go wild. But if you’re on an actual team trying to get things done, please don’t bore the other people to death with the “interminably soul crushing debates over code formatting” as the article aptly puts it. The team wants to see exciting results, not “exciting” code. Code is a means, not an end. And especially if you’re on the job, you are not being compensated with excitement, but money. Go seek excitement in your personal time. Formatters are not comparable to GPT because the code semantics have not changed, only the form. You just don’t want to retrain yourself to read code that isn’t written exactly to your liking. That’s laziness.