Thanks, but I prefer it my way

The LLMs have changed how software gets made, and will keep changing it - for code, for design, for any digital product. Buried under all the productivity talk there is one thing they enable which does not get discussed much: never having to collaborate with another human being, ever again. The library whose maintainer won’t answer, the framework whose author finds your use case silly, the colleague who wants it done just so - you can now route around all of them. You can rewrite the thing in an afternoon, and nobody gets to tell you “no”. We may soon come to regret this new freedom. Not because the rewrites are bad (they are often fine), but because the thing that forced us to work together is gone - and both sides of the open source bargain have spent years making sure we wouldn’t miss it. I am currently available for contract work. Hire meto help make your Rails app better! Baptiste Senior, in case you have not seen the film, is a petty dictator. That is the role we, software…