Comment by bigfishrunning

> It's only with the emergence of whiny, persnickety Unix devs who refused to leave the comforting embrace of their editor of choice that shops in the internet/dotcom/startup tradition embraced a "use whatever tools you want" philosophy. They had uncharacteristically enormous leverage over the tech stack being deployed in such businesses and could force employers to make that concession. And anyway, what some of them could do with vi blew the boss's mind.

They had enormous leverage because they were more productive then the drones who use whatever tools they are handed and lack the curiosity to use anything else. These breathless reports of increased productivity are constant, but why is there no evidence of that productivity increase otherwise? Why hasn't there been a surge of side-project video games on Steam? Why is github down so often despite Microsoft's commitment to AI?

The AI tools make it easier to do things that were already easy, but the minute your code gets interesting these tools are an absolute mess.