[Gud]

Many programmers("software developers") believe they have the final say on what an application should be like, and they were mostly right before the advent of LLM assisted software development.

I started programming as a child, although I was more interested in system administration.

Today I work as a high voltage test engineer on new substations. I do partial discharge measurements mostly on green field sites.

I have developed amazing tools for myself, software that I could only dream of having that would have taken years of cat herding and millions of dollars, and still not be quite what I wanted. I am a competent programmer, but I don't have the time. I have the ideas, I even know how to do it, but I already work 50-60 hours a week.

Now I can ping pong my ideas with chatgpt and claude and get something useful out of it, all in the background.

The only thing that leaves a bad taste in my mouth, is that this technology is owned by at best neutral corporations. I want to host it myself, but I can't pay the money, which sucks.