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[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No, I've decided not to use a tool that isn't fit for purpose. Studies have consistently shown that people think they're much more productive on LLMs than they actually are, and the side effects of cognitive debt and skill loss aren't worth the often imaginary productivity gains.

Combine that with the awful financials of OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Google's Gemini, and you've got the makings of a really nasty situation.

Say I come to depend on Claude Code for all my coding, and build an entire workflow around it. I get used to spending thousands of dollars a month for access, and tell myself it's worth it for the imaginary productivity gains (although what's actually happening is that I'm just producing a shit-ton of garbage code no one has any hope of understanding).

Then Anthropic reaches the point where they run out of investor money to spend, and fold because even charging developers like me thousands of dollars doesn't even begin to cover their costs, and I'm one of their rare customers who are loyal, versus the bulk of developers who use up their free allotments of tokens and then model-hop.

Now what? My workflow is broken, I've forgotten how to code, and nothing I've produced recently is human-readable.

No thanks. I'm not an old man yelling at clouds, I'm a software developer who can recognize a problem when I see one.

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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