[bodegajed]

Well said. This dream is probably for someone who have experienced the hardship, felt frustrated and gave up. Then see others who effortless did it, even felt fun for them. The manifestation of the dream feels like revenge to them.

[mattgreenrocks]

This framing neatly explains the hubris of the influencer-wannabes on social media who have time to post endlessly about how AI is changing software dev forever while also having never shipped anything themselves.

They want to be seen as competent without the pound of flesh that mastery entails. But AI doesn’t level one’s internal playing field.