Comment by port11

This is a classical, charming take on software developers, but we don't judge most professions that way.

“It bothers me that so many cashiers don't care about the craft of service and payment point connection.”

“It bothers me that so many butchers don't care about the craft of choosing meat cuts and selling meat tailored to the customer.”

We expect of developers craft, passion, after-work commitment, life-long learning, and so on, and so on. Many other professions are free of or lighter on such expectations.

I agree that it's alienating to see sloppy, automated code crop up simply because people want to get paid. Code used to be this cool domain… But I'm not shocked, since our society evolved towards commoditising absolutely everything.

Even thoughtful messages to loved ones are now available through LLM-hallucinated apps. We're done here, pack up your expectation of humanity staying, ahm, human? Disheartening.