Massive changes made by robit in what has been a pretty stable utility for years is (obviously?) my main concern. It’s absolutely a crutch, and seeing a dev lean on it like this gives me the same feeling Coach must’ve got seeing his star player limping into the big game on a real one. If dude wants to check out and let the machine run his project fine, but I’ll be looking for something someone still cares about and works on.

I think you’d be a fool to use it. At this point it’s subsidized by their need for training data/desire to manufacture dependency, but that won’t be the case for long. It’s expensive, detrimental to your skills, and damaging to both our planet and society. It centralizes and gatekeeps access to information, the most powerful resource of all. “Treat it like an inexperienced dev” managers say, while it replaces their opportunities to gain experience. How are they supposed to even tell great code from shit when everything they’re exposed to has been run through the averaging machine?