[jebarker]

> Ultimately most developers don't care, they want to collect a paycheck and go home. LLMs don't change this; the dev who randomly adds StackOverflow snippets to "fix" a crash without understanding the root cause was never going to gain a deeper understanding, the same way the dev who blindly copy&pastes from an LLM won't either.

I read this appraisal of what "most devs" want/care about on HN frequently. Is there actually any evidence to back this up? e.g. broad surveys where most devs say they're just in it for the paycheck and don't care about the quality of their work?

To argue against myself: modern commercial software is largely a dumpster fire, so there could well be truth to the idea!

[oblio]

> I read this appraisal of what "most devs" want/care about on HN frequently. Is there actually any evidence to back this up? e.g. broad surveys where most devs say they're just in it for the paycheck and don't care about the quality of their work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

Almost every field I've ever seen is like that. Most people don't know what they're doing and hate their jobs in every field. We managed to make even the conceptually most fulfilling jobs awful (teaching, medicine, etc).