One thing I hate about LLMs is how much oxygen it's sucked out of the room for other much longer-standing issues in tech.
Like how tech culture is built on gatekeeping.
Or how widespread burnout is in FOSS and professional tech, and has been for many years, before LLMs. And how people who worked cushy jobs until recently never really realised that's how it was for half the industry.
Or how collaboration is inherently one-sided and often hostile, and users are entitled and believe they deserve your labour for nothing.
Or that open-source projects often are load-bearing on single personalities who treat people like crap but can't be gotten rid of. The fact DHH hasn't been blackballed. The fact people still worship RMS and the ground he walks on because he founded a movement. The fact that "RMS fucked a parrot" is not a disqualifier from public life.
Or how it's hard to find good mentors willing to help.
Or how university CS/CE pipelines generate the wrong kind of developers en masse, but not enough of the ones we need.
Or how big tech has been busting unions for 20 years and those voices get stifled because "we don't need a union" is still a widespread belief in tech.
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