There's a Kroger grocery store near my house. It's very convenient -- I'm near it almost every day I'm alive. They have all kinds of things there, including factory-made bread and factory-made eggs.

There's also a tiny little Amish bakery that I know of. They make all kinds of things there, but the most interesting to me are the loaves of plain white bread that they bake every day (except Sunday) in their wood-fired oven. It is not near to me and is also off the beaten path a good bit, but I try to make a point to go there when I'm in the area. I usually just get a loaf of that plain white bread along with a dozen eggs from the chickens that they have roaming around outside eating bugs.

I wouldn't call any aspect of it artisanal or anything like that, but it's definitely not made by machines.

And for reasons I can't really rationalize or explain, I enjoy having things from the Amish bakery in my kitchen more than I do the superficially similar things that I get from Kroger.

And yet: I usually eat the factory stuff from Kroger. On a strictly functional basis it's about the same to me.

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Anyway: Software. Did a bot write it? Did a person? Was it a combined effort? Does it even matter?

I can accept that folks might prefer to have software in their library that is written by people. My acceptance of this does not require them to rationalize their preference, or for me to agree with it or even understand it.

It's fine when someone cares about that kind of thing. And it's fine if they don't care, too.

We're allowed to like what we like. It's good to have options, and it's OK to prefer one way over another.