[ottaborra]

Something I've learnt the hard way. While there is merit to be able to do things without model assistance, this is a tale as old as time: purists who resist model usage will in the end be the unintentional enforcers of a culture of: everybody uses AI but the ones who come on top are people who pretend otherwise/who can best hide the fact that they are using them

You're probably aware of things like hyping up your resume, hyping up your stories and the existence of people on the other side who know of this dog and pony show and continue to play along? What you're going through in my opinion is the AI age analogue of that: everyone probably uses them but the people who come on top are the people who are able to pretend they don't