>To me, any software engineer who tries an LLM, shrugs and says “huh, that’s interesting” and then “gets back to work” is completely failing at their actual job

>To me, any software engineer who tries an LLM, shrugs and says “huh, that’s interesting” and then “gets back to work” is completely failing at their actual job, which is using technology to solve problems This feels like a mentality of "a solution trying to find a problem". There's enough actual problems to solve that I don't need to create more. But sure, the extension of this is "Then they go home and research more usages and see a kerfluffle of legal, community, and environmental concerns". Then decides to not get involved in the politics". >Either way, the market is going to punish them accordingly. If you want to punish me because I gave evaluations you disagreed with, you're probably not a company I want to work for. I'm not a middle manager.