Paying the "toll" here by prefacing my comment with "LLMs are a remarkable achievement with real-world utility; I use Copilot etc" blah blah. But I've reached

Paying the "toll" here by prefacing my comment with "LLMs are a remarkable achievement with real-world utility; I use Copilot etc" blah blah. But I've reached a point of disillusionment with the current "hype cycle." I'm not even advocating for "grass-fed organic hand-written" code or whatever, but for some reason the hyper fixation on automating writing and programming with the mixed results is just kind of gross to me. It's really turned me off of "programmer culture" and makes me question the future of all this, especially as a vocation. Maybe it says something about me, it just all strikes me as "cheap." Dunno.