> I'd rather write a new Device Mapper target than do either of those things

Perhaps it’s time for a career change then. Follow your joy and it will come more naturally for you to want to spread it.

Again,

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

From my reading the “strongest possible interpretation” of the original “CRUD app” line was “it’s a solved problem that largely requires rtfm and rote execution of well worn patterns in code structure” making it similarly situated as “server telemetry” to make llms appear superintelligent to people new to programming within those paradigms.

I’m unfamiliar with “device mapping”, so perhaps someone else can confirm if it is “the crud app of Linux kernel dev” in that vein.

Just listing topics in software development is hardly evidence of either your own ability to work on them, or of their inherent complexity.

Since this seems to have hurt your feelings, perhaps a more effective way to communicate your needs would be to explain why you find “server telemetry” to be more difficult/complex/w/e to warrant needing an llm for you to be able to do it.