I feel slightly disappointed. At the same time nobody is obliged to live like the public (or his "fans") think that person should live.

I used to aspire to reach the same and now I lose a bit more respect with their every drag of the AI-pipe.

The trick always was to not heroify people.Mentally putting people on a pedestal is almost always a mistake.

I don't see Carmack or Torvalds doing this, so it's all good (for now).

How does it feel to read yet another unbelievably unenlightening article about LLM usage voted to the top of the frontpage for the thousandth day in a row?

This. Thanks. It's a relief to see I am not the only one completely disappointed. I still believe that these posts are just an ad stunt to publicize their soon-to-be released AI tool. If they really believe what they're writing, it's really sad.

This is why you should never meet--nor listen too much--to your heroes.

You either die as a programmer hero or live long enough to be a Linkedin-style influencer.

On a more serious note, the technology & its use cases of AI are pretty dividing especially within software engineering. I would consider the fact that the financial incentives driving it and the what ~3 TRILLION $ invested in AI driving up some of this divide too.