The turn most software devs have taken shouldn't have surprised me. Well before LLMs, most devs I've met had the soul of a landlord
Sometimes "landlord trying to be cool". Sometimes "landlord who wants suffering with the rent"
But both see the world with the eyes of a rent-seeker
Baldur Bjarnason
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