When using LLM-based coding assistants, I always had a strange feeling about the interaction. I think I now have a pointer around that feeling -^[1] disappointment from having expected more (again and again), followed by low level of disgust, and an aftertaste of disrespect growing into hatred.^[2]

But why hatred - I didn't expect that color of emotion to be in there - where does it come from? A hypothesis comes to mind 🌶️ - I hate gambling,^[3] LLMs are stochastic, and whenever I got a chance to observe people for whom LLMs worked well it seemed like addiction.

From another angle, when doing code review, it motivates me when it's a learning opportunity for both parties. Lately, it feels like the other "person" is an incompetent lying psychopath who can copy&paste around and so far has been lucky to only work on toy problems so no one noticed they don't understand programming .. at all. Not a single bit. They are even actively anti-curious. Just roleplaying - fake it till you make it, but they didn't make it yet.^[4]

I recently lost my love of programming and I haven't found my way back, yet. I blame LLMs for that. And post-capitalist incentives towards SF style disruptive network-effect monopolization, enshitification of platforms, gamification of formerly-nuanced human interactions. And companies and doomers that over-hype current "AI" - I believe most of the future risks and some of the future potential, and that the current state of the art is amazing, a technological wonder, magic come real ... so how the heck did it happen that the hype has risen so much higher than reality for so long when reality is so good?!?

I want progressive type systems and documentation on hover, I don't want to swap the if condition while refactoring and then "fix" the test. I don't want to skip 1 line when migrating from JSON to some random format. I don't want *+ instead of + in my regexp. A random file deleted. Messing up with .gitignore. Million other inconveniences. Have you seen how people un-minified Claude Code - the sheer amount of workarounds, cringe IMPORTANT inside the system prompt and the constant reminders? Have you seen people seeing it and concluding that it's proof that "it works"?!?

I believe that when companies ask software developers to improve their "productivity" by using LLM coding assistants, it is the next stage of enshitification - hook users f...